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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... justice might be 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 ...
... justice to the Aristotelian conception of " mean " from which it is implicitly drawn and , in particular , does not rec- ognize that a " mean " must always be achieved prudentially with full recog- nition of the likely temptations that ...
... justice.2 Above all , each camp is becoming increasingly incapable of articulating the danger to democracy posed by the loss of corrective religious resources , that faith which might serve to chasten forms of “ democratic faith ...
... 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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9780691118710_6CH4 | 117 |
9780691118710_7CH5 | 140 |
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9780691118710_13NOT | 289 |
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9780691118710_15AFT | 367 |