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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... thinkers as itself an object of worship and deification is suggestive less of thoughtlessness or hypocrisy than subtle acknowledgment of the sacred amid the profane, of faith amid unbelief, even the possibility of true belief amid ...
... thinkers object to suppositions that we have reached philosophically the " end of history , " nevertheless in Western political thought there is no for- midable or even noticeably significant challenge to the near - universal em- brace ...
... thinkers who regarded democracy with suspicion , misgivings , and even outright hostility as overly dour and even pessimistic . We resist any rejection of democracy as informed by an ideology or even faith that has since been superseded ...
... thinkers an aggressive rejec- tion of religious belief that asserts the existence of certain unalterable human conditions , including those of sinfulness , pride , self - aggrandizement , a propensity to irrationality , and a ...
... thinkers to the antidemocratic “ transformative ” phi- losophy of Nietzsche ( a fact Nietzsche implicitly acknowledged through his deep admiration of Emerson ) . Alternatively " democratic realism " begins from a disposition of ...
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