Centre for Ethics Talk - Frank Cunningham (Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto)

Frank Cunningham is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Political
Science and the Interim Director, Centre for Ethics, University of
Toronto. He is also a Senior Advisor at Cities Centre, University of
Toronto.

“A citizen,” Aristotle famously maintained, “is one who shares in
governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of
government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing
to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.” This
paper draws on Aristotle’s conception to identify core urban virtues
insofar as they apply to 21st Century cities such as Toronto and the
conditions favourable to or inhibitive of the nurturing of these virtues.