Civic Humanism
Emphasizes active citizenship and the cultivation of abilities needed for public judgment. Education and civic participation help sustain a free political community.
Foundational doctrines
- Active citizenship
- Public virtue
- Common good
- Human flourishing
Disagreement and variation
The dispute is whether public engagement should be a shared ideal, a political duty, or one valuable life among several legitimate alternatives. A contested historical category; civic humanism and freedom-as-non-domination republicanism should not be collapsed.
Numerical positions in the interactive model are editorial reference estimates, not scientifically validated measurements.