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On Vindication in Politics: A Problem in Political Ethics

This paper takes up the largely neglected concept of vindication in relation to politics in order to demonstrate the ways in which vindication matters with respect to the exercise of political agency and to sustaining the practice of politics. More specifically, I try to show how reflection on the concept of vindication and its relationship with the concept of justification is important for identifying and addressing dimensions of political ethics that are central both to sustaining the valuing of politics as a way of conducting our lives together and to offering an understanding of the kind of ethical character that we should desire from politicians.

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David Owen

School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Southampton

Fri, Nov 8, 2024
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin