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In Our Name : The Ethics of Democracy /

When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--""Not in our name!""--Testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the...

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Auteur principal: Beerbohm, Eric Anthony, 1975- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • How to value democracy
  • Paper stones, the ethics of participation
  • Philosophers-citizens
  • Superdeliberators
  • What is it like to be a citizen?
  • Democracy's ethics of belief
  • The division of democratic labor
  • Representing principles
  • Democratic complicity
  • Not in my name, macrodemocratic design.