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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... embrace of imperfection and human fallibility, undergirded not by any claims to truth but instead by pragmatic adjustment and prudential calcula- tion of interest and accretion of popular assent, at the same time can be frankly ...
... embrace , how the rejection of truth in politics has led to the creation of a guiding truth in politics , and how that most anti - utopian regime may become most dangerously utopian at the mo- ment it congratulates itself loudest for ...
... embrace of certain democratic tenets centered around a belief in uni- versal human suffrage , political equality , economic and personal liberty , and inherent human dignity constitute shared features of various schools of dem- ocratic ...
... embrace of the belief that ordinary humans are capable of , at the very least , minimal decencies and , at best , deep devotion both to those dreams and interests they hold dearest and to those same dreams and interests held by their ...
... 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 takes human beings as they ...
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