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The democracy reader : from classical to contemporary philosophy / edited by Steve M. Cahn, Andrew T. Forcehimes, Robert B. Talisse. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, (c)2021.Description: xvi, 449 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781538157558
  • 1538157551
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC423.C346.D466 2021
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  • COPYRIGHT: Digital & Print: Use of over 25% of this item, contact Rachel Twombly (rtwombly@rowman.com) at Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group or fill out this request form: https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form
Contents:
PART 1: CLASSIC SOURCES. Pericles: Funeral Oration ; Plato: Crito ; Plato: Republic ; Aristotle: Politics ; Mencius: The works of Mencius ; Niccolo Machiavelli: The discourses ; Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan ; Baruch Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise ; John Locke: Second Treatise of Government ; John Locke: Letter Concerning Toleration ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Of the Social Contract ; Edmund Burke: Speech to the Electors of Bristol ; The declaration of independence ; The constitution of the United States ; Alexander Hamilton and James Madison: The Federalist Papers #10, #51, and #70 ; The declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen ; Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America ; Karl Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 ; Frederick Douglass: What to the slave is the fourth of July? ; Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address ; Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address ; John Stuart Mill: On liberty ; John Stuart Mill: Considerations on representative government ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The solitude of self ; W. E. B. Du Bois: Of the ruling of men ; John Dewey: Democracy ; John Rawls: The idea of public reason revisited
PART 2: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES. Richard J. Arneson: Democracy is not intrinsically just ; Elizabeth Anderson: Democracy - Instrumental vs. non-instrumental value ; Seyla Benhabib: Toward a deliberation model of democrative legitimacy ; The epistemic dimension of democratice authority ; Jason Brennan: Polluting the polls - when citizens should not vote ; Julia Maskivker: Being a good samaritan requires you to vote ; Iris Marion Young: Activist challenges to deliberative democracy ; Robert B. Talisse: Polarization and democratic citizenship.
Summary: "This timely anthology gathers forty historical and contemporary treatments of democracy. Short introductions precede each reading and a general introduction increase student comprehension across the spectrum of readings. The volume is ideal for both the undergraduate and graduate students in political theory and philosophy courses"-- Publisher's site
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PART 1: CLASSIC SOURCES. Pericles: Funeral Oration ; Plato: Crito ; Plato: Republic ; Aristotle: Politics ; Mencius: The works of Mencius ; Niccolo Machiavelli: The discourses ; Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan ; Baruch Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise ; John Locke: Second Treatise of Government ; John Locke: Letter Concerning Toleration ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Of the Social Contract ; Edmund Burke: Speech to the Electors of Bristol ; The declaration of independence ; The constitution of the United States ; Alexander Hamilton and James Madison: The Federalist Papers #10, #51, and #70 ; The declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen ; Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America ; Karl Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 ; Frederick Douglass: What to the slave is the fourth of July? ; Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address ; Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address ; John Stuart Mill: On liberty ; John Stuart Mill: Considerations on representative government ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The solitude of self ; W. E. B. Du Bois: Of the ruling of men ; John Dewey: Democracy ; John Rawls: The idea of public reason revisited

PART 2: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES. Richard J. Arneson: Democracy is not intrinsically just ; Elizabeth Anderson: Democracy - Instrumental vs. non-instrumental value ; Seyla Benhabib: Toward a deliberation model of democrative legitimacy ; The epistemic dimension of democratice authority ; Jason Brennan: Polluting the polls - when citizens should not vote ; Julia Maskivker: Being a good samaritan requires you to vote ; Iris Marion Young: Activist challenges to deliberative democracy ; Robert B. Talisse: Polarization and democratic citizenship.

"This timely anthology gathers forty historical and contemporary treatments of democracy. Short introductions precede each reading and a general introduction increase student comprehension across the spectrum of readings. The volume is ideal for both the undergraduate and graduate students in political theory and philosophy courses"-- Publisher's site

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