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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... moral imagination which the heart owns , and the understanding ratifies , as necessary to cover the defects of our own naked shivering nature , and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation . ” What did democracy do to these ...
... moral activity toward the necessities of physical life and use them to produce well - being , if you think that reason is more use to men than genius , if your object is not to create heroic virtues but rather tranquil habits , if you ...
... moral positions , so long as they are not made in a spirit of bad faith , violence , or other violations of the standard of civility . Carter's real target , though , is any view that would assimilate all human values under one flag ...
... morally valuable. This kind of self-invention has been called by different names. Some philosophers call it autonomy, and others authenticity, but what- ever name we give it, it is an essential feature of the concept of individuality to ...
... moral benchmark by which we judge our lives and the lives of others , and its tenacity as an ideal is an even more impressive fact than our consistent failure to achieve it . The moral appeal of democracy as a form of government is ...
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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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