Just Love

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Title Page, Copyright Page

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pp. iii-iv

Contents

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pp. vii-

Acknowledgments

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pp. ix-xiii

This is a book about the power of ordinary heroes, and I am grateful to many heroes in my life who played crucial roles in its writing. Although it is customary to acknowledge institutional supporters and scholarly colleagues first, and personal supporters afterwards, I invert that order here...

Part I. Mad about MADD

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pp. 1-

1. Invisible Heroes: Mad about MADD

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pp. 3-18

Twenty years ago the thirteen-year-old daughter of suburban California housewife Candy Lightner was killed by a drunk driver. Mrs. Lightner was distraught to learn that the driver had been on the road despite having an extensive record of driving while intoxicated. Rather than simply...

2. New Calls for Civic Virtue, and Calls for New Civic Virtues

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pp. 19-69

As chapter 1 elaborated, a pervasive fall narrative obscures the civic virtue of citizens like MADD ’s founders. This mythology eulogizes the widespread cultivation of citizen virtue in some past golden age, lamenting a loss of civic character since then. The prevalence of the fall narrative...

Part II. The Dilemma of Impartiality

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pp. 71-

3. The Dilemma of Impartiality: Legacy of the Bishopand the Chambermaid

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pp. 73-122

The conventional ideal of impartiality can’t be lived with because it demands superhuman detachment from one’s personal commitments, dismisses the ethical relevance of such commitments, and obfuscates real differences between citizens. On the other hand, it can’t be lived without...

4. Impartiality-as-Standpoint and Lost (Again) Virtue

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pp. 123-169

In this chapter, I return more fully to the contemporary theorists of civic virtue briefly introduced in chapter 2. I argue that the lingering false dichotomy between partialist and impartialist moral theory subtly but dangerously replicates itself in their work. This explains the invisibility of...

Part III. Resolving the Dilemma: Impartiality-as-Practiceand the Transformation of Civic Virtue

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pp. 171-

5. Saving the Baby from the Bathwater: A Turn to Practice

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pp. 173-202

The standpoint conception of impartiality is so entrenched that it is presumed not only by its philosophical defenders but also by its critics. While the dichotomy between partiality and impartiality is ultimately a false one, it is nonetheless an influential one. Political theory is thus hamstrung...

6. Impartiality-as-Practice: The Lesson of Ordinary Moral Heroes

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pp. 203-270

We have seen the structural parallelism between the dilemma of objectivity in science, the dilemma of love in Christian theology, and the dilemma of impartiality in political theory. In each case, a central ideal of the tradition came to be viewed as a “can’t live with it, can’t live without it” ideal...

7. Just Love: The Transformation of Civic Virtue

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pp. 271-312

In this concluding chapter, I elaborate the implications of impartiality-as- practice for conceptions of civic virtue. My goal is not to provide an airtight definition of civic virtue but to counter distortions in conventional views and to redirect discourse in productive ways. I aim to foster renewed...

Appendix: Case Studies

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pp. 313-363

Notes

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pp. 365-386

References

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pp. 387-402

Index

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pp. 403-422