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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... condition for democratic ends . In the first line of Rousseau's Social Contract , Rousseau declares his in- tention to " take men as they are and the laws as they might be . " 2 A less utopian yet more idealistic formulation perhaps ...
... conditions , including those of sinfulness , pride , self - aggrandizement , a propensity to irrationality , and a fundamental condition of alienation . At the same time , however , the " faith claims " of transformative democratic ...
... condition of need and insufficiency and not because of the promise of ulti- mate autonomy or perfectibility . Indeed , contemporary endorsements of democracy premised upon belief in progress , human agency , control of na- ture ...
... conditions. This is one understanding at least of 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 ...
... philosophical underpinnings afforded by John Rawls in A The- ory of Justice and Political Liberalism — especially the starting assumptions of the necessary conditions of political justice that derive from FAITH IN ΜΑΝ 21.
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