There is room for public-spiritedness and do-gooders.
The cleanup fostered "a spirit of unity that swept over the entire country".Revolutions too are good for public-spiritedness.
Material inequality is a powerful determinant of the quality of social relations, of public spiritedness and of the psychosocial wellbeing of modern populations.
Participation in a democracy as Dewey conceived it requires critical and inquisitive habits of mind, an inclination toward cooperation with others, and a feeling of public spiritedness and a desire to achieve the common good.
Instead, politicians need to hide the nastier part of their job behind a mask of public spiritedness.
Donald Trump has made a shrewd estimate of the distaste, in a part of the Republican base, for virtue or high-mindedness or public spiritedness of any sort — what he dismisses as "political correctness".
Before adjourning for sentencing, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC told jurors he would be highlighting the "public spiritedness" of the people who rushed to help on the day of the attack.
As maintained by Nicole Curato, by transposing the deliberative ideal into concrete practices, it would be possible for political decision-making to be governed by "norms of openness, public spiritedness and inclusivity instead of staunch partisanship or political horse-trading" (2015: 103).
More important, they believed, was public spiritedness — a system of habits and attitudes that would check egotism and self-indulgence.
As Kristol points out in the essay, the meaning of the phrase "public spiritedness" has flipped since the 18th century.
