Moroccan academic Mohamed Al-Masoudi, a professor of political philosophy at Mohammed V University in Rabat, said there is a need today for a political ethics that secures a democracy grounded in democratic citizenship. He argued that this citizenship requires people to adhere first to the condition of humanity and to seek the good as valued in human terms. That pursuit, he said, depends on a public rationality that calls for the stronger argument and a spirit of deliberation. He spoke to Hespress, and his position was presented as a defense of citizenship in cultural pluralism as a route to justice and an end to marginalization.