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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... one's eyes). —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations BETWEEN oCToBER 9 AND 11, 1794, the remains of Jean-Jacques Rousseau were transported from Ermenonville on the Isle des Peupliers to his current and final resting place in ...
... one's own motiva- tions - previous philosophers ranging from antiquity to the middle ages and even into modernity have held democracy to be an idealistic but finally un- workable form of utopian fantasy.4 Contemporary devotion to ...
... one's own and sometimes evident but often insufficient care for the good of the whole - can be under- stood to undergird many theological accounts and equally underlies many secular variants that stress the possibility of a kind of ...
... one's own love- letters or blowing one's own nose . These things we want a man to do for himself , even if he does them badly . . . . In short , the democratic faith is this : that the most terribly important things must be left to ...
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