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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... Law and Public Affairs , and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University ; Christ College at Valparaiso University ; Harvard University ; The Ohio State University ( with special thanks to the Mershon Center ) ...
... laws - laws that could serve as the basis of an excel- lent regime , but which yet elude them . Such law might be realized if the in- herent decency of humans could itself be either recovered or actualized for the first time . " Man is ...
... laws as they might be . " Yet , if this simple dictum of Rousseau , if only implicitly , underlies appar- ently modest democratic endorsement that most largely share — if , further , it renders us unwilling , perhaps even incapable of ...
... laws what they ought to become by means of them . " 6 If there is a distance between the " reality " of men as they are and the laws as they might be ― between those manifest limitations of human beings and the ideal of a democracy in ...
... laws of the state . This is democracy ; and in this I have always believed.21 Democracy premised not on “ perfectibility ” but rather on inescapable im- perfection is one that retains a commitment to amelioration premised first on an ...
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