Philosophy and Democracy: An Anthology
Language: English
Pages: 376
ISBN: B000VI54ZM
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This volume collects some of the leading essays in contemporary democratic theory published in the past thirty years. The anthology presents the work of a select group of contributors (including Peter Singer, Joshua Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, Richard Arneson, and others) and covers many foundational approaches defended by scholars from a range of different disciplines. The chapters address many issues that are central to philosophical reflections on democracy, such as questions pertaining to deliberative and economic approaches, as well as to such topics as intrinsic fairness, the role of equality in relation to minority groups, and the limits of democracy. Covering representative work in economics, political science, legal theory, and philosophy, this comprehensive volume is suited to courses in political theory and political philosophy.
Beyond Hegemony: Towards a New Philosophy of Political Legitimacy
The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Ends in Sight: Marx/Fukuyama/Hobsbawm/Anderson
Cannot accept, therefore, Alan Ryan's argument that "On any possible view of the distinction between private and public life, voting is an element in one's public life."65 The very distinction between the secret and the open ballot shows that there is room for a private-public distinction within politics. The economic theory of democracy, therefore, rests on the idea that the forum should be like the market, in its purpose as well as in its mode of functioning. The purpose is defined in economic.
Rights.18 Finally, I emphasize that the point of guarantees of religious liberty, which fall under the requirement of deliberative inclusion, is not narrowly political: it is not to enable people to participate in politics—or to participate without fear— nor is the aim to improve public discussion by adding more diverse voices to it.19 The idea instead is that abridgment of such liberties would constitute denials to citizens of standing as equal members of sovereign people, by imposing in ways.
Just. . . . [WJhile citizens normally submit their conduct to democratic authority, that is, recognize the outcome of a vote as establishing a binding rule, other things equal, they do not submit their judgment to it.18 This is the problem of deference faced by epistemic approaches to democracy. The objection is not to Rousseau's requirement that the outcome be obeyed. I believe (and will argue) that something much like Rousseauian voting can perhaps justify this requirement. Rousseau goes.
Nonaccountable nonelected judges. This argument, in other words, holds that majoritywill decision making will usually produce better outcomes than judicial overrides. The second argument is an appeal to procedural fairness that maintains that it is intrinsically fairer for important political decisions affecting a group of people to be made by those people or their representatives in democratic fashion rather than by a small elite flouting majority will. "What concerns all should be decided by.
Clarity on the question of what democracy is all about and what its underpinnings are must be achieved. And so this volume has focused on the central questions concerning the nature and basis of democratic theory in the hope that it can help shed light on the problems of applying democratic principles to international institutions. Introduction 13 Notes I would like to thank Joel Martinez for all of his hard work in helping me prepare this manuscript. 1. See Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed.