Democracy And The Ethical Life
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Author | : Claes G. Ryn |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813207118 |
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This study goes to the heart of ethics and politics. Strongly argued and lucidly written, the book makes a crucial distinction between two forms of democracy
Author | : Claes G. Ryn |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Jane Addams |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2019-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734068630 |
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Reproduction of the original: Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams
Author | : Lucio Cortella |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438457553 |
Download The Ethics of Democracy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The legal regulations and formal rules of democracy alone are not enough to hold a society together and govern its processes. Yet the irreducible ethical pluralism that characterizes contemporary society seems to make it impossible to impose a single system of values as a source of social cohesion and identity reference. In this book, Lucio Cortella argues that Hegel's theory of ethical life can provide such a grounding and makes the case through an analysis of Hegel's central political work, the Philosophy of Right. Although Hegel did not support democratic political ends and wrote in a historical and cultural context far removed from the current liberal-democratic scene, Cortella maintains that the Hegelian theory of ethical life, with its emphasis on securing a framework conducive to human freedom, nevertheless offers a convincing response to the problem of the ethical uprootedness of contemporary democracy.
Author | : Andrew Sabl |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2009-02-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400825008 |
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How should politicians act? When should they try to lead public opinion and when should they follow it? Should politicians see themselves as experts, whose opinions have greater authority than other people's, or as participants in a common dialogue with ordinary citizens? When do virtues like toleration and willingness to compromise deteriorate into moral weakness? In this innovative work, Andrew Sabl answers these questions by exploring what a democratic polity needs from its leaders. He concludes that there are systematic, principled reasons for the holders of divergent political offices or roles to act differently. Sabl argues that the morally committed civil rights activist, the elected representative pursuing legislative results, and the grassroots organizer determined to empower ordinary citizens all have crucial democratic functions. But they are different functions, calling for different practices and different qualities of political character. To make this case, he draws on political theory, moral philosophy, leadership studies, and biographical examples ranging from Everett Dirksen to Ella Baker, Frances Willard to Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr. to Joe McCarthy. Ruling Passions asks democratic theorists to pay more attention to the "governing pluralism" that characterizes a diverse, complex democracy. It challenges moral philosophy to adapt its prescriptions to the real requirements of democratic life, to pay more attention to the virtues of political compromise and the varieties of human character. And it calls on all democratic citizens to appreciate "democratic constancy": the limited yet serious standard of ethical character to which imperfect democratic citizens may rightly hold their leaders--and themselves.
Author | : John Moffatt Mecklin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Democracy |
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Author | : Ella Myers |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0822353997 |
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What is the spirit that animates collective action? What is the ethos of democracy? Worldly Ethics offers a powerful and original response to these questions, arguing that associative democratic politics, in which citizens join together and struggle to shape shared conditions, requires a world-centered ethos. This distinctive ethos, Ella Myers shows, involves care for "worldly things," which are the common and contentious objects of concern around which democratic actors mobilize. In articulating the meaning of worldly ethics, she reveals the limits of previous modes of ethics, including Michel Foucault's therapeutic model, based on a "care of the self," and Emmanuel Levinas's charitable model, based on care for the Other. Myers contends that these approaches occlude the worldly character of political life and are therefore unlikely to inspire and support collective democratic activity. The alternative ethics she proposes is informed by Hannah Arendt's notion of amor mundi, or love of the world, and it focuses on the ways democratic actors align around issues, goals, or things in the world, practicing collaborative care for them. Myers sees worldly ethics as a resource that can inspire and motivate ordinary citizens to participate in democratic politics, and the book highlights civic organizations that already embody its principles.
Author | : Gregory Fernando Pappas |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
ISBN | : 0253351405 |
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A thorough, definitive account of Dewey's ethics
Author | : Eric Anthony Beerbohm |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691154619 |
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When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship. Confronting the ethical challenges that citizens are faced with in a self-governing democracy, Eric Beerbohm proposes institutional remedies for dealing with them. Beerbohm questions prevailing theories of democracy for failing to account for our dual position as both citizens and subjects. Showing that the obligation to participate in the democratic process is even greater when we risk serving as accomplices to wrongdoing, Beerbohm argues for a distinctive division of labor between citizens and their representatives that charges lawmakers with the responsibility of incorporating their constituents' moral principles into their reasoning about policy. Grappling with the practical issues of democratic decision making, In Our Name engages with political science, law, and psychology to envision mechanisms for citizens seeking to avoid democratic complicity.
Author | : David L. Norton |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 1995-10-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0520203488 |
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At a time when politics and virtue seem less compatible than oil and water, Democracy and Moral Development shows how to bring the two together. Philosopher David Norton applies classical concepts of virtue to the premises of modern democracy. The centerpiece of the book is a model of organizational management applicable to the state, business, the professions, and voluntary communities.