Introduction Phenomenology, first of all, is a method and democracy is a process of decision making and any comparison seems to be some kind of category mistake (when things of one kind are presented as if they belonged to another). Although this article starts with well-known facts about phenomenology and democracy, it attempts to uncover common ground between these two and the relevance of this parallelism to the problem of citizenship (1). In this article I will also explore the interaction between phenomenology and democracy as a foundation for a new kind of virtue theory.