"The Tears That a Civil Servant Cannot See" -- Rethinking Civic Virtue in Democratic Education: A Levinasian Perspective.

In this essay, the author examines the third component in the role of civic virtue in democratic education from a Levinasian point of view. He references Emmanuel Levinas's view of the relationship between societal peace and the ethical demands of responsibility that challenges the understanding of the role of virtue in democratic education. He demonstrates that rather than a third component which sits equally alongside of knowledge and skills, virtue has moral priority and should be understood not as traits of character.