Making Civil Society Work: the «Scottish Moralists» and the Cultural Foundations of Modernity
Keywords:
rust, Scottish Moralists, civil society, modernityAbstract
The article outlines the importance of civil society in the philosophical discourse of modernity from the perspective of the Scottish Moralists’ insights into the cultural foundations of interpersonal trust conceived as an essential element of civic virtue. The importance of civil society springs from its dissimilarity with reference to the discourses of free markets and political hierarches. Hence, the notion may be associated with the modern conception of the citizen conceived as an individual shrouded in reciprocity (homo reciprocus).
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3. Coleman, J. S. (1990), Foundations of Social Theory, Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
4. Cooley, C. H. (1930), Human Nature and the Social Order, New York : Simon and Schuster.
5. Davies, N. (1997), Europe. A History, London : Pimlico, P. 7.
6. Elias, N. (1982), The Civilizing Process, New York : Pantheon Books.
7. Fukuyama, F. (1995), Trust: Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, New York : Free Press, 457 p.
8. Granovetter, M. (1983), The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited, Sociological Theory, Vol. 1, Pp. 201–233.
9. Granovetter, M. (1973), The Strength of Weak Ties, American journal of Sociology, Vol. 78.
10. Mead, G. H. (2004), The Self, the I and the Me, ed. by. C, Lemert., Boulder : Westview Press, 229 p.
11. Putnam, R. D. (1993), Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 247 p.
12. Putnam, R. D. (2000), Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, New York : Simon and Schuster.
13. Putnam, R. D. (2002), The Prosperous Community. Social Capital and Public Life, The American Prospect Online, No 30, www.prospect.org/web/printfriendly-view?id=5175
14. Johnson, P. (1994), Frames of Deceit: A Study of the Loss and Recovery of Public and Private Trust, Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press.
15. Ricoeur, P. (1999), Imagination, Testimony and Trust. A Dialogue with Paul Ricoeur, Questioning Ethics. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy, London and New York : Routledge.
16. Seligman, A. B. (1997), The Problem of Trust, Princeton : Princeton University Press, 231 p.
17. Smith, A. (1982), The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Indianapolis : Liberty Classics.
18. Smith, A. (1991), The Wealth of Nations, London : Everyman’s Library.
19. Szacki, J. (2004), Historia myśli socjologicznej, Warszawa : PWN.
20. Tocqueville, A. (1969), Democracy in America, New York :Harper, Book 2, Ch. VII.
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04.05.2018
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