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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Justification of Democracy"”.
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Democracy, Instrumentalism, and Power as a Trust: On the Foundations of Political Instrumentalism
In this dissertation, I explore the theory of political instrumentalism and its application to the justification of democracy. I suggest that because of the dominance of intrinsic accounts of the justification of democracy in contemporary democratic theory, political instrumentalism has been …
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Peircean Epistemic Democracy: Truth, Pluralism, and Religion
… Peircean epistemic approach to democratic justification to address the challenge of reasonable pluralism. Whereas public reason approaches to democratic justification require citizens privatize their worldviews, an epistemic approach to democracy allows citizens the freedom to express their …