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Democracy, knowledge, and imagination

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In public debate, we can discern amostly implicit idea that politics is an affairfor politicians. This contradicts the idea ofthe active citizen, according to which thedifference between politician and citizen ismerely accidental. This article focus upon theprerequisites of such an ideal in modernsociety and especially the classical idea ofprudence as central to good citizenship. Therole of school education is stressed. MarthaNussbaum's concept of ``narrative imagination''is seen as important as well as well aneducation aiming at the Bildung of thestudent.

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Liedman, SE. Democracy, knowledge, and imagination. Studies in Philosophy and Education 21, 353–359 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019826223709

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