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The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a hierarchical relationship. As such it is vulnerable to rejection, a trauma at the root of both ritual and violence. An offering is also an ambiguous gesture torn between a genuine expression of gratitude and love and an instrument of exchange, a tension that haunts the practice of sacrifice. In the moral and political domains, sacrifice is tied to the idea of self-transcendence, in which an individual sacrifices his or her self-interest for the sake of higher values and commitments. While self-sacrifice has great potential moral value, it can also be used to justify the most brutal acts. Halbertal attempts to unravel the relationship between self-sacrifice and violence, arguing that misguided self-sacrifice is far more problematic than exaggerated self-love. In his exploration of the positive and negative dimensions of self-sacrifice, Halbertal also addresses the role of past sacrifice in obligating future generations and in creating a bond for political associations, and considers the function of the modern state as a sacrificial community.

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A careful study of the political thought of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke, revealing the roots of modern democracy.

Politische Philosophie --- Gerechtigkeit --- Demokratie --- Political and social views. --- Justice (Philosophy) --- Democracy --- Philosophy. --- Machiavelli, Niccolò --- Locke, John --- Hobbes, Thomas --- Machiavelli, Niccolò, --- Locke, John, --- Hobbes, Thomas, --- Philosophy --- Machiavelli, Niccolo, --- マキアヴェルリ --- Philanthropus, --- Lokk, Dzhon, --- Lūk, Jūn, --- Lo-kʻo, --- Locke, Giovanni, --- Lock, --- Lock, John, --- Rokku, Jon, --- לוק, י׳ון, --- Gobbs, Tomas, --- Hobbs, Thomas, --- Gobbes, Tomas, --- T. H. --- H., T. --- Hobs, Thomas, --- Hobbes, --- Hobbes, Thom. --- Hobbius, Thomas, --- Hobbuzu, Tomasu, --- Huobusi, --- Hobbs, Tho. --- הובס, תומס, --- 霍布斯, --- ホッブズ, トマス, --- Hobbes. --- Locke. --- Machiavelli. --- Political thought. --- democracy roots. --- human sentiment. --- modern democracy. --- ordinary people. --- participation. --- political life. --- political theorists. --- rule.

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Godsdienst en politiek --- Politics and religion --- Politiek en godsdienst --- Politique et religion --- Religion and politics --- Religion et politique --- 241.62*3 --- 241.1*31 --- BPB1108 --- Vie politique --- Theologische ethiek: houding tegenover de staat --- Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie. Ethiek van de revolutie --- Politiek leven --- 241.1*31 Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie. Ethiek van de revolutie --- 241.62*3 Theologische ethiek: houding tegenover de staat --- Democracy --- Religious aspects --- Démocratie --- Aspect religieux --- politica --- politika --- Politik --- politică --- politikë --- politiek --- política --- polityka --- πολιτική --- poliitika --- politics --- политика --- politik --- politiikka --- politisches Leben --- πολιτική ζωή --- politisk liv --- vida política --- политички живот --- politikai élet --- политически живот --- politisk verksamhet --- politiek leven --- poliittinen elämä --- jetë politike --- viață politică --- politiskā dzīve --- życie polityczne --- politički život --- politinis gyvenimas --- politiskt liv --- vie politique --- ħajja politika --- politično življenje --- politický život --- political life --- vita politica --- polaitíocht --- politique

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Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the accelerating pace of technological change creates potentially enormous dangers as well as benefits. Accelerating Democracy shows how to adapt democracy to new information technologies that can enhance political decision making and enable us to navigate the social rapids ahead. John O. McGinnis demonstrates how these new technologies combine to address a problem as old as democracy itself--how to help citizens better evaluate the consequences of their political choices. As society became more complex in the nineteenth century, social planning became a top-down enterprise delegated to experts and bureaucrats. Today, technology increasingly permits information to bubble up from below and filter through more dispersed and competitive sources. McGinnis explains how to use fast-evolving information technologies to more effectively analyze past public policy, bring unprecedented intensity of scrutiny to current policy proposals, and more accurately predict the results of future policy. But he argues that we can do so only if government keeps pace with technological change. For instance, it must revive federalism to permit different jurisdictions to test different policies so that their results can be evaluated, and it must legalize information markets to permit people to bet on what the consequences of a policy will be even before that policy is implemented. Accelerating Democracy reveals how we can achieve a democracy that is informed by expertise and social-scientific knowledge while shedding the arrogance and insularity of a technocracy.

Information technology --- Technological innovations --- Democracy. --- Democratization. --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Self-government --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Political aspects. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- LAW / Science & Technology. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- New democracies --- Internet. --- administrative government. --- artificial intelligence. --- bias. --- collective decision making. --- computational advances. --- computer. --- cultural cognition. --- democracy. --- dispersed media. --- earmarks. --- education reform. --- elections. --- empirical analysis. --- empiricism. --- federalism. --- friendly AI. --- governance. --- government data. --- information age. --- information costs. --- information markets. --- information technology. --- innate majoritarian bias. --- knowledge falsification. --- machine intelligence. --- majority rule. --- modern technology. --- political bias. --- political campaigns. --- political culture. --- political decision making. --- political information. --- political life. --- political prediction markets. --- politics. --- public action problem. --- public policy. --- regulation. --- representation. --- social governance. --- social knowledge. --- social planning. --- social policy. --- social science. --- social-scientific knowledge. --- special interests. --- status quo. --- technocracy. --- technological acceleration. --- technological change. --- term limits.

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Het Vlaams Parlement vierde op 7 december 2021 zijn vijftigste verjaardag. Op die dag is het een halve eeuw geleden dat het eerste parlement van de Vlamingen, de Cultuurraad van de Nederlandse cultuurgemeenschap, geïnstalleerd werd. Sindsdien werd er een indrukwekkend parcours afgelegd. In 1980 werd de Cultuurraad omgevormd tot de Vlaamse Raad en vanaf 1995 was er officieel sprake van het Vlaams Parlement, zoals we het ook vandaag kennen. Van een cultuurparlement met beperkte zeggenschap, groeide het parlement uit tot een volwaardig instituut met uiteenlopende bevoegdheden, 124 rechtstreeks verkozen leden en twee gebouwen in het hart van Brussel.Tijdens die vijftig jaar weekte de Vlaamse deelstaat zich los uit het unitaire Belgische staatsverband en werd het Vlaams Parlement het centrum van de Vlaamse democratie.

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