Democracy And Relativism

Author : Cornelius Castoriadis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786610966

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Democracy and Relativism by Cornelius Castoriadis Pdf

In this vibrant debate with intellectuals influenced by Marcel Mauss, including Alain Caillé and Chantal Mouffe, the incisive Greek-French activist and philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis addresses the challenge of critical thinking in an international context. The first half explores the tradition of radical self-critique and the prospect of affirming its value in a non-ethnocentric way. While defending ancient Greek contributions to the Western tradition of radical self-critique — including the practice of “relativizing” one's own culture, of engaging in philosophical interrogation, and of establishing democratic institutions — Castoriadis is challenged to explore the trans-contextual features of any self-critical, or “autonomous,” social institution. In the second half Castoriadis offers a penetrating critique of representative democracy, and the discussion makes important strides toward a new conception of direct democracy, of political education, and of the institutional prerequisites for the continuation of radical self-critique in politics and philosophy.

Author : Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231540377

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Relativism and Religion by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti Pdf

Moral relativism is deeply troubling for those who believe that, without a set of moral absolutes, democratic societies will devolve into tyranny or totalitarianism. Engaging directly with this claim, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the roots of contemporary anti-relativist fears to the antimodern rhetoric of the Catholic Church and then rescues a form of philosophical relativism for modern, pluralist societies, arguing that this viewpoint provides the firmest foundation for an allegiance to democracy. In his analyses of the relationship between religious arguments and political authority and the implications of philosophical relativism for democratic theory, Accetti makes a far-ranging contribution to contemporary debates over the revival of religion in politics and the conceptual grounds for a commitment to democracy. He presents the first comprehensive genealogy of anti-relativist discourse and reclaims for English-speaking readers the overlooked work of Hans Kelsen on the connection between relativism and democracy. By engaging with contemporary attempts to replace the religious foundation of democratic values with a neo-Kantian conception of reason, Accetti also makes a powerful case for relativism as the best basis for a civic ethos that integrates different perspectives into democratic politics.

Author : W.J. Stankiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000674798

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Aspects of Political Theory by W.J. Stankiewicz Pdf

First published in 1976. This study continues an endeavour whose aim was to use traditional concepts as a basis for the discussion of contemporary political predicaments. The endeavour began with the publication of the symposium In Defense of Sovereignty (1969). Its long-range goal is to consider under a common denominator—relativism in politics— various aspects of theory such as the basic concepts discussed in the present essay, together with more modern theories of democracy and the wider spectrum of political ideologies.

Author : John J. Stuhr
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253018977

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Pragmatic Fashions by John J. Stuhr Pdf

John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a space for a philosophy that is liable to failure and that is experimental, pluralist, relativist, radically empirical, radically democratic, and absurd. Full color illustrations enhance this lyrical commitment to a new version of pragmatism.

Author : Haris Shekeris
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443862868

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Science, Democracy and Relativism by Haris Shekeris Pdf

Science, Democracy and Relativism proposes and defends the thesis that scientific knowledge is produced through a process of argumentation and consensus among relevant communities of scientists, and that it is disseminated to other epistemic communities according to communitarian epistemology. Such a thesis considers scientific knowledge as unashamedly relative; however, this is regarded as a good thing for democracy, as it views knowledge as a matter of deliberation rather than something to be discovered. In order for democracy to flourish in modern settings where science is ever-present, and in order to avoid the creation of unelected and unaccountable scientific elites essentially producing state policy, it is necessary for the lay public to co-author, co-produce and co-own scientific knowledge. The book spans many disciplines in order to make its central argument, addressing topics ranging from political philosophy and theories of democracy, to the public understanding of science, science education, the sociology of scientific knowledge, science policy and the closure of scientific controversies, the philosophy of science, epistemology and semantics, and, finally, to sustainability science. The style of the prose and of the examples and topics discussed is deliberately simple, making the volume interesting and accessible to the interested lay-person.

Author : Stephanie Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UCSD:31822025666132

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Culture, Relativism and Democracy by Stephanie Lawson Pdf

Author : Brendan Sweetman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030783822

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The Crisis of Democratic Pluralism by Brendan Sweetman Pdf

This book argues that contemporary liberal democracy is reaching a crisis. Brendan Sweetman contends that this crisis arises from a contentious pluralism involving the rise of incommensurable worldviews that emerge out of the absolutizing of freedom over time in a democratic setting. This clash of worldviews is further complicated by a loss of confidence in reason and by the practical failure of public discourse. A contributory factor is the growing worldview of secularism which needs to be distinguished from both the process of secularization and the concept of the secular state. After describing the crisis, and exploring these themes, and also rejecting proposed solutions from recent liberal political theory, Sweetman develops an approach to pluralist disagreement which requires a re-envisioning of the relationship between religion, secularism and politics, and which allows a limited place for all worldviews in the state, including religious worldviews. Engaging with the work of Philip Kitcher, Robert Audi, John Rawls, A.C. Grayling, Martin Luther King, Cécile Laborde, John Stuart Mill, John Locke, and Plato, Sweetman's approach is a formidable innovation in the quest to maintain a free and fair society.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138507431

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Aspects of Political Theory by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

First published in 1976. This study continues an endeavour whose aim was to use traditional concepts as a basis for the discussion of contemporary political predicaments. The endeavour began with the publication of the symposium In Defense of Sovereignty (1969). Its long-range goal is to consider under a common denominator--relativism in politics-- various aspects of theory such as the basic concepts discussed in the present essay, together with more modern theories of democracy and the wider spectrum of political ideologies.

Author : John H. Hallowell
Publisher : Amagi Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 0865976694

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The Moral Foundation of Democracy by John H. Hallowell Pdf

Hallowell makes a significant argument in favour of the importance of moral values in the orderly functioning of modern democracies. Hallowell begins with a survey of the role that classical liberalism and faith in man as a reasonable, moral, and spiritual actor played in the emergence of democratic self-government. He sharply criticises positivist thought and moral relativism as direct challenges to the notion that transcendent truths guide individuals in their actions and influence how people participate in a democratic society. Hallowell reminds us that at its core, a well-functioning democracy must be based on a fundamental respect for the dignity of the individual.

Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439126264

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Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom Pdf

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.

Author : William Gairdner
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773574694

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The Book of Absolutes by William Gairdner Pdf

A lively challenge to postmodern opinion that reveals satisfying and reliable certainties.

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139935760

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Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1 by Richard Rorty Pdf

Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.

Author : William D. Gairdner
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773578326

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The Book of Absolutes by William D. Gairdner Pdf

A lively challenge to postmodern opinion that reveals satisfying and reliable certainties.

Author : Hans Kelsen
Publisher : Irvington Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0829037284

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Absolutism and Relativism in Philosophy and Politics by Hans Kelsen Pdf

Author : Osman Bilen
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1565181670

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The Historicity of Understanding and the Problem of Relativism in Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics by Osman Bilen Pdf