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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... kind of intervention by those who have adequately realized such grounds , if only in theory and not yet in fact . In order not to abandon a belief in democracy , nor to embolden those who would find democratic discontent as a sign of ...
... kind of " democratic tran- scendence ” and an overcoming of human alienation . 10 Again , Tocqueville's observations at the dawn of modern mass democracy are instructive , inas- much as he saw that democracy had a tendency to lead ...
... kind of earthly divinity but rather as that which begins from , and never has far from sight , an acknowl- edgment of human shortcomings . An initial recognition , even embrace , of human imperfection , and concomitant rejection of the ...
... kind of democratic cynicism or despair . “ Critics " of democracy — ranging from Plato to Tocqueville to Niebuhr and Lasch - are often mistaken as being hos- tile toward democracy proper , because they seek to warn against democ- racy's ...
... kind there are certain primary truths , or first principles , upon which all subsequent reasons must depend . These contain an internal evi- dence which , antecedent to all reflection or combination , commands the assent of the mind ...
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