Political virtues
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The political virtues were listed by Bernard Crick "In Defense of Politics", 1982. They included but were not limited to:
- prudence - take one step, then see its results before taking another,
- conciliation - making friends with people you have argued with,
- compromise - giving up somethings you want to get those things that are most important to you,
- variety - people want to have a number choices that are different from each other,
- adaptability - meet the needs of changing times, and
- liveliness - never be boring.
These democratic values he saw as alternatives to ideology or any "absolute-sounding ethic"; more virtues will lead to less conflict.
Some other political virtues have also been suggested:
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Political_virtues" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_virtues, and the Simple English Wikipedia article, "Political_virtues" http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_virtues, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
