Democracy and moral conflict
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Democracy and moral conflict
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Originally published: 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Why democracy? Most often this question is met with an appeal to some decidedly moral value, such as equality, liberty, dignity or even peace. But in contemporary democratic societies, there is deep disagreement and conflict about the precise nature and relative worth of these values. And when democracy votes, some of those who lose will see the prevailing outcome as not merely disappointing, but morally intolerable. How should citizens react when confronted with a democratic result that they regard as intolerable? Should they revolt, or instead pursue democratic means of social change? In this book, Robert Talisse argues that each of us has reasons to uphold democracy - even when it makes serious moral errors - and that these reasons are rooted in our most fundamental epistemic commitments. His original and compelling study will be of interest to a wide range of readers in political philosophy and political theory.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The problem of deep politics
- 2. Against the politics of omission
- 3. Folk epistemology
- 4. Justifying democracy
- 5. Epistemic perfectionism
- Works cited.
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