Problems for democracy /

This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Annual Conference of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace
Otros Autores: Kultgen, John H., Lenzi, Mary
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Colección:Value inquiry book series ; v. 181.
Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of peace.
Temas:
Democracy.
Peace-building.
Political science > Philosophy.
Consolidation de la paix.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democracy
Peace-building
Political science > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Judith PRESLER: Editorial Foreword
  • John KULTGEN: Preface
  • John KULTGEN and Mary LENZI: Acknowledgments
  • Donald A.WELLS, Ronald J. GLOSSOP, Beth J.SINGER, and Mary LENZI: Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace?
  • Part One: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse
  • Introduction
  • Ron HIRSCHBEIN and Jason SUPPUS: Semiotics of Meaninglessness: Cornel West 's Explication of Inner-City Nihilism
  • Howard HARRIOTT: Moral Pessimism and the Ideals of Democracy
  • Edward SANKOWSKI: South African Democracy, Multi-Culturalism, Rights, and Community
  • Gilburt GOFFSTEIN: Exploring Problems of Democracy with Perspectives of Jürgen Habermas and Zen Buddhism
  • Jerald RICHARDS: Hiroshima, Morality, and Democracy
  • Part Two: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes
  • Introduction
  • William C. GAY: Democracy in Market Economies
  • Thomas CHRISTIANO: Political Equality and the Independent Power of Private Property
  • Beth J. SINGER: Rights and Affirmative Action
  • Judith PRESLER: The Procedural Republic
  • Matthew SILLIMAN: Living Democracy Despite the Rule of Law: Civil Disobedience as Political Narrative
  • Part Three: Democracy and Routes to Peace
  • Introduction
  • Donald A.WELLS: Unnecessary Suffering and Superfluous Injury
  • Brian LUKE: Exclusion of Soldiers from War-Making Decisions
  • Ali ERRISHI: Recursive Metaphysics Is Bad for Democracy
  • Andrew KELLEY: Toward a Reformulation of the Doctrine of Pacifism
  • Gregory P. FIELDS: Gandhi and Dewey: Education for Peace
  • Mary LENZI: Philosophers, Peace, and Problems for Democracy
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors
  • Index.

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