Republican Virtue
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Henry A. Giroux: Neoliberalism Defined
Neoliberalism is a philosophy which construes profit making as the essence of democracy and consuming as the only operable form of citizenship. It also provides a rationale for a handful of private interests to control as much as possible of social, economic, and political life in order to maximize their personal profit. Neoliberalism is marked
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Republican Virtue
Active virtus, to achieve its highest development in the confrontation with fortuna…requires the fullest participation in the life of the city, . . . Bruni goes on to develop an idealization of Florentine civility along lines consciously modeled on the Funeral Oration of Pericles, the citizen is he who can develop as many forms of