Democratic FaithPrinceton University Press, 10.01.2009 - 388 Seiten The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick Deneen argues that among democracy's most ardent supporters there is an oft-expressed belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to reconcile the sometimes disappointing reality of human self-interest with the democratic ideal of selfless commitment. This "transformative impulse" is frequently couched in religious language, such as the need for political "redemption." This is all the more striking given the frequent accompanying condemnation of traditional religious belief that informs the "democratic faith.? |
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... Plato's Democratic Ideal 191 CHAPTER 8 The Only Permanent State : Tocqueville on Religion and Democracy 214 CHAPTER 9 Hope in America : The Chastened Faith of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christopher Lasch 239 CONCLUSION A Model of Democratic ...
... ( Plato , Tocqueville , and the Americans Reinhold Niebuhr , Christopher Lasch , and Abraham Lincoln ) who caution against the democratic impulse toward self - flattery . Among a number of these critics " democratic faith " is countered ...
... Plato's rationalist response to the perceived unjustness of democratic Athens, just as conversely it is seen as animating in part Nietzsche's or Schmitt's antifoundationalist aversion to liberal forms of modern democracy. While one ...
... Plato . " 8 Here Madison does not mean for us to assume for an instant the feasibility of achieving such a “ nation of philoso- phers , ” since he has little confidence that the faculty of “ enlightened reason ” is ever likely to be ...
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