Democracy and DisagreementHarvard University Press, 1 iul. 2009 - 432 pagini The din and deadlock of public life in America—where insults are traded, slogans proclaimed, and self-serving deals made and unmade—reveal the deep disagreement that pervades our democracy. The disagreement is not only political but also moral, as citizens and their representatives increasingly take extreme and intransigent positions. A better kind of public discussion is needed, and Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson provide an eloquent argument for “deliberative democracy” today. They develop a principled framework for opponents to come together on moral and political issues. |
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... Social Philosophy and Policy , 12 ( Winter 1995 ) : 87–110 . Copyright © 1995 by Cambridge Uni- versity Press . Portions of Chapter 2 are drawn from our " Moral Conflict and Political Consensus , " Ethics , 100 ( October 1990 ) : 64–88 ...
... social conditions and historical background in which the events take place , we can avoid extensive discussions of the circumstances of the cases and concentrate more on the competing values at stake . The contexts are not primarily the ...
... social morality in the absence of individual harm , and the other from paternalists , who would legislate on the basis of individual welfare in the absence of individual consent . We show how basic liberty can be preserved while ...
... social pro- cesses . Sometimes these assumptions are plausible but controversial : hiring and promoting simply on the basis of qualification will not end racial discrimination soon enough . Sometimes they are widely accepted but ques ...
... social justice either in theory or in practice . Our argument is rather that in the absence of robust deliberation in democracy , citizens cannot even provi- sionally justify many controversial procedures and constitutional rights to ...
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The Value of Publicity | 95 |
The Scope of Accountability | 128 |
The Promise of Utilitarianism | 165 |
The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy | 199 |
The Latitude of Liberty | 230 |
The Obligations of Welfare | 273 |
The Ambiguity of Fair Opportunity | 307 |
Conclusion | 346 |
Notes | 363 |
Index | 411 |