Everyday peacebuilding through democratic political education is a necessary but not sufficient condition for limiting negative political emotions such as anger, fear, and resentment, and for cultivating the political virtues needed for an alternative, more democratic orientation toward power: one that values and exercises power with other members of a demos, not power over them. These demotic political virtues include self-restraint, resistance, humility, respect for the civic dignity of others, non-violent protest, and radical poise to coordinate this constellation of political virtues. For those who have been forcibly displaced, have benefited from forced displacement, or have just become aware of their complicity in this type of political violence, to maintain a radically poised stance is a continuing process of democratic political education.

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Introduction

  • Stephen L. Esquith

摘要

Everyday peacebuilding through democratic political education is a necessary but not sufficient condition for limiting negative political emotions such as anger, fear, and resentment, and for cultivating the political virtues needed for an alternative, more democratic orientation toward power: one that values and exercises power with other members of a demos, not power over them. These demotic political virtues include self-restraint, resistance, humility, respect for the civic dignity of others, non-violent protest, and radical poise to coordinate this constellation of political virtues. For those who have been forcibly displaced, have benefited from forced displacement, or have just become aware of their complicity in this type of political violence, to maintain a radically poised stance is a continuing process of democratic political education.