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Sooner or later, sociologists and political philosophers, with few exceptions, end up referring to the theme of the differences between what is considered truly political, and what is ethical or moral. This difference however is far from relevant. But it is particularly important in the global times of today, when it is assumed that politics has been replaced by pure economic reasoning. This would mean that in the global times of modernity there are no conflicts, because there are no real actors, neither social nor political. In the face of this catastrophic and resigned manner of thinking, I have protested before in another publication (Mires, 2000). I wish to refer now to the theme of the inter-relations between morality, ethics and politics that has not passed beyond a second level. It has, on the contrary, more validity now if we wish to recover political reasoning, especially in Latin American countries where the process of constructing democracy, both formal and real, is far from being over, with or without globalization. The political sociology of the postmodern age which is still in the making, must recover the ethical-political legacy from the Athenian era up to the present, with an attempt to understand the sense and reason of these public places that were created so that our conflicts and interests could be reconciled without recurring to violence, something that has recently seemed possible in certain Latin American countries. So-called citizen virtues are, effectively, the result of long historical processes marked by multiple pre-political adventures. Before virtues appeared on the citizen menu, a lot of blood flowed under the bridges. This paper is an essay that centers first on the relationships between ethics, politics and morality. In the second place, we refer to the theme of passions, from the point of view of political virtue. Lastly, we refer to a more permanent political theme: truth and non-truth in the life of the citizen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]