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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... look like a godsend to be able to consider the little ones after having read these first , if , of course , they do happen to be the same . ” The bigger place that Socrates has in mind is the city , a political association composed of ...
... look like that of cities . Not only do these two species of justice conform to the same pattern or idea — to use one of the most potent words in the lexicon of Greek philosophy . In the end , Socrates insists , a city can be just only ...
... looks like its psychological counterpart but is pro- duced by it as well . And the reverse is equally true . For in order to establish that internal order within the souls of its citizens that constitutes their justice as individuals ...
... looks , in Socrates ' words , like " a general store " that contains every imaginable pattern for living . Some choose one pattern , others another , and for a time at least adopt it as a guide , though most move restlessly from ...
... looks through the superficial world of sights and sounds to the eternal forms behind it , and it is with these forms and not their images or reflections that he is in love . According to Socrates , these enduring forms are the only ...
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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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