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Liberalism. --- Deliberative democracy. --- Libéralisme --- Démocratie délibérative --- Libéralisme --- Démocratie délibérative --- Deliberative democracy --- Liberalism --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Discursive democracy --- Democracy --- Démocratie --- Démocratie

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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.

Democracy --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Moral conditions --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Democracy. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Democracy - Moral and ethical aspects

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"We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those with whom we don't see eye to eye. Making matters worse, we are being appealed to--by companies, products, and teams, for example--based on our deep-seated, polarized beliefs. Our choice of Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts, Costco or Sam's Club, soccer or football, New York Times vs. Wall Street Journal is an expression of our beliefs and a reinforcement of our choice to stay within the confines of our self-selected political community, making us even more polarized. Letting it bleed into these choices in every corner of our lives, we take democracy too far and it ends up keeping us apart. We overdo democracy. When we overdo democracy, we allow it to undermine and crowd out many of the most important social goods that democracy is meant to deliver. What's more, in overdoing democracy, we spoil certain social goods that democracy needs in order to flourish. A thriving democracy needs citizens to reserve space in their social lives for collective activities that are not structured by political allegiances. To ensure the health and the future of democracy, we need to forge civic friendships by working together in social contexts in which political affiliations and party loyalties are not merely suppressed, but utterly beside the point. Drawing on his extensive research, Talisse sheds light on just how deeply entrenched our political polarization has become and opens our eyes to how often we allow politics to dictate the way we see almost everything. By limiting our interactions with others and our experience of the world so that we only encounter the politically like-minded, we are actually damaging the thing that democracy is meant to preserve in the first place: the more fundamental good of recognizing and respecting each other's standing as equals."--

Democracy --- Political participation --- Philosophy --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Démocratie participative --- Démocratie -- Philosophie --- Democracy - Philosophy

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Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism --- Liberalism --- Political science --- Pragmatism --- Philosophy --- Political aspects --- Philosophy