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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... rule in Tiananmen Square assembled a Styrofoam and papier - mâché sculpture that they called the God- dess of Democracy . Based on a classic statue of a Chinese peasant ( and some- times mistaken for the American Statue of Liberty ) ...
... rule based on epistemic modesty and an 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 ...
... rule , and freedom to become what their capacities allow , and not to make humans other than they already are . We ... rules of reason of State , the effect would have to become the cause , the social spirit which is to be the work of ...
... rule of law, and a greater role for deliberation, whether juridical or more popular. Alternatively theories that center on epistemological assumptions of deep pluralism, irreconcilable value commitments, and an antifoundational ...
... intervening cen- turies , the respective epistemological assumptions of Hamilton and Madison have been put in the service of justifications of democracy rather than used as means of attempting to rein in the rule of FAITH IN ΜΑΝ 19.
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