Moreover, if economic dependence produces power inequality within marriage, then Mill's 'school of injustice' objection applies an institution teaching injustice is likely to undermine the virtues of citizenship (Okin 1994, Young 1995).
There's a risk that a mandate undermines the virtue, but on balance I'm in favor.
This is not simply about misleading consumers, but about undermining civic virtue as well.
Adams also believed that public theaters undermined civic virtue, and he joined an ultimately unsuccessful effort to keep theaters banned in Boston.
But, over the years, government has grown and undermined these virtues.
Moreover, the task of defining feasible pathways for modifying the structure of liberal democracies without undermining their virtues and protections has proved more difficult than setting out the criticisms of liberalism.
Ewin, for example, argues that because loyalty can be badly placed and because, once formed, it requires us not merely to suspend our own judgment about its object but even to set aside good judgment (Ewin, 1992, 403, 411), its pretensions to the status of a virtue are undermined, for the virtues are, he argues, internally linked to some idea of good judgment.
The media audience participates in the discussion - a phenomenon that encourages empowerment and civic engagement, both of which (in addition to being democratic virtues) undermine the salience of the meta-frames discussed above.
The "Five Vermin" chapter (49) presents an important and provocative argument that threatens to undermine the basis of virtue ethics.
Cobbett, by contrast, is altogether less subtle as he lambasts the "nabobs, negro-drivers, generals, admirals, governors, commissaries, contractors, pensioners, sinecurists, commissioners, loan-jobbers, lottery-dealers, bankers, stock-jobbers", and all the other cronies of "the Thing" (that opaque mix of urban and mercantile corruption) for undermining the rural virtue of his native Hampshire.
