TY - BOOK ID - 29960962 TI - Democracy and moral conflict PY - 2009 SN - 9780521513548 9780511635281 9780521183901 9780511634833 0511634838 0521513545 0511633653 9780511633652 0521183901 0511635281 1107189934 0511699581 1282336770 9786612336775 0511634382 0511632452 0511631243 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Democracy KW - Self-government KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Moral conditions KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Democracy. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Democracy - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:29960962 AB - 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. ER -