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The American Project And The American Soul, Darren Patrick Guerra
The American Project And The American Soul, Darren Patrick Guerra
Helm's School of Government Conference - American Revival: Citizenship & Virtue
What is the role of virtue in the American political project in the American soul? This is a burning, if not, defining question in American politics today. This paper will briefly examine various contemporary accounts of the role of virtue in the American project and its impact on the future of American politics, and finally in turn the American soul. This paper will examine the works of Patrick Deneen, Robert Reilly, Dyer & Cooper, among others. It will argue that virtue, properly conceived, plays a vital role in American Politics and it must be connected to an objective moral order, …