Document Type
Presentation
Location
Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
Event Website
https://jepson.richmond.edu/major-minor/research/symposium.html
Start Date
30-4-2020 12:00 AM
Description
This project examines civic engagement. It is divided into three chapters: apathy, voting, and group loyalties. In the first section, I derive two duties, a duty to care and a duty to reason well, that serve as a framework for community engagement aimed at facilitating moral progress. In the second section the main topic is voting. Voting as it currently stands poses several difficulties when conforming to the duties of caring and reasoning well. Instead of arguing for abstaining from voting, I argue for strategies that we can vote well by being more rational. The third section of this project then focuses on what I viewed as the main obstacle to voting well and fulfilling duties: group loyalties. Group loyalties cloud our reasoning abilities, causing us to make motivated decisions. This project uses two duties to frame how to engage with others, proposes a better way to participate civically, and suggests ways to avoid pitfalls associated with group membership.
Included in
Learning to Check Yourself: Improving Civic Engagement Through Duties, Better Voting Practices, and Combatting Group Loyalty
Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
This project examines civic engagement. It is divided into three chapters: apathy, voting, and group loyalties. In the first section, I derive two duties, a duty to care and a duty to reason well, that serve as a framework for community engagement aimed at facilitating moral progress. In the second section the main topic is voting. Voting as it currently stands poses several difficulties when conforming to the duties of caring and reasoning well. Instead of arguing for abstaining from voting, I argue for strategies that we can vote well by being more rational. The third section of this project then focuses on what I viewed as the main obstacle to voting well and fulfilling duties: group loyalties. Group loyalties cloud our reasoning abilities, causing us to make motivated decisions. This project uses two duties to frame how to engage with others, proposes a better way to participate civically, and suggests ways to avoid pitfalls associated with group membership.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/jepsonresearchsymposium/2020/program/4
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Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Javier Hidalgo, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies