Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American DemocracyJedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar Yale University Press, 1 окт. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 288 In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen contributors consider the nature and prospects of democracy as it relates to the American experience—free markets, religion, family life, the Cold War, higher education, and more. These probing essays bring American democracy into fresh focus, complete with its idealism, its moral greatness, its disappointments, and its contradictions. Based on DeVane lectures delivered at Yale University, these writings examine large themes and ask important questions: Why do democratic societies, and the United States in particular, tolerate profound economic inequality? Has the United States ever been truly democratic? How has democratic aspiration influenced the development of practices as diverse as education, religious worship, and family life? With deep insights and lively discussion, the authors expand our understanding of what democracy has meant in the past, how it functions now, and what its course may be in the future. |
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... Socrates and his companions offer of democratic government and of the way of life associated with it. Most of the Republic is devoted to an examination of the conditions under which the very best kind of political regime might emerge ...
... Socrates understood this idea. For democrats, who affirm the value of the individual, the greatest challenge of ... Socrates and a small group of friends regarding two questions: First, what does it mean for a person to be just? And ...
... Socrates and his friends return to the subject of individual justice midway through book 4, Socrates asks the others whether ''it isn't quite necessary'' for them ''to agree that the very same forms and dispositions that are in the city ...
... Socrates says, its members must accept their proper places in the civic order, each one practicing the single function for which, in Socrates' words, ''his nature [makes] him naturally most fit.'' A regime is just, on Socrates' view ...
... Socrates says, is ''full of freedom and free speech.'' Its citizens have license to do as they wish, choosing those activities that happen, for whatever reason, to please them at the moment. All different ways of life, from the sordid ...
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4 Can Religion Tolerate Democracy? And Vice Versa? | 67 |
5 Taking Democracy to School | 99 |
Audits Quantification and the Obfuscation of Politics | 115 |
The Democracy as Social Movement | 138 |
9 Democracy and Distribution | 173 |
10 Democracy and Foreign Policy | 205 |
11 Dinner with Democracy | 222 |
12 American Democracy and the Origins of the Biomedical Revolution | 236 |
13 Computers and Democracy | 258 |
List of Contributors | 273 |
Index | 275 |
8 Democracy and the Market | 154 |
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