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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... achieve the realization of this inherent decency to bring about democracy in its most fully manifested , even ideal form.3 Democracy , in this succinct formulation , seems the most appropriate , even most natural regime for human beings ...
... achieve a willingness to embrace even were it perceptible — indeed , arguably because human beings are so riven by differ- ence as to be incapable of becoming a “ whole ” —Rousseau invokes a lex ex machina , the " Legislator , ” who ...
... achieved — then we must either attribute this fact to one of two main causes : either men “ as they are " do not currently exhibit the kinds of imagination , sympathy , or ra- tionality that needs to inform the willingness to cede some ...
... achieved by identifying democracy in the dynamic tension between two im- pulses , one that is “ accepting ” of people in all their imperfection , and the other " transforming " in an effort to challenge people to improve and go be- yond ...
... achieved prudentially with full recog- nition of the likely temptations that will draw such a conception of democ- racy inevitably back toward one dominant extreme.17 I would rather recommend an alternative " dynamic , " one that begins ...
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