Problems for Democracy (Value Inquiry Book)

CONTENTS......Page 10
Editorial Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgments......Page 24
1. Donald A. Wells......Page 26
2. Ronald J. Glossop......Page 28
3. Beth J. Singer......Page 30
4. Mary Lenzi......Page 33
PART ONE: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse......Page 44
Introduction......Page 46
1. Struggle to Understand Inner-City Gangs......Page 48
2. Varieties of Nihilistic Experience......Page 50
1. Moral Pessimists\' Viewpoint......Page 58
2. Moral Pessimism and the Legacy of Slavery......Page 60
3. Governmental Action and Moral Pessimism......Page 62
4. Hope Amidst Moral Pessimism......Page 63
5. Overcoming the Societal Problem......Page 64
6. Overcoming the Legacy of Slavery......Page 65
Three: South African Democracy, Multi-Culturalism, Rights, and Community......Page 70
1. Liberalism and Communitarianism......Page 71
2. South African Politics......Page 72
3. Multi-Culturalism in South Africa......Page 75
4. Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Multi-Culturalism......Page 81
1. Habermas\'s Theory of Communicative Action......Page 86
2. Psychoanalytic, Feminist, and Post-Modern Concerns......Page 92
3. Exploring the Zen-Habermas Interplay......Page 98
1. Two Narratives......Page 108
2. The Bombing and Its Consequences......Page 109
3. Early Criticism—Moral Issues......Page 111
4. Official Hiroshima Narrative......Page 112
5. Challenging the Official Hiroshima Narrative: Enola Gay Script and Its Fate......Page 114
6. Moral Issues Revisited......Page 115
7. Hiroshima, Democratic Processes, and Democratic Values......Page 120
8. Grounds for Hope......Page 121
PART TWO: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes......Page 126
Introduction......Page 128
Six: Democracy in Market Economies......Page 130
1. Separation of Democratic Principles from the Economic Sphere......Page 131
2. Extending Democracy to the Economic Sphere......Page 133
3. Actual Models and Practices of Economic Democracy......Page 135
4. Economic Democracy and Justice......Page 139
Seven: Political Equality and the Independent Power of Private Property......Page 144
1. Illustration......Page 145
3. Equalities......Page 147
4. General Analysis......Page 149
6. Exercise of Property Rights Can Violate Political Equality......Page 151
7. Political Equality, Power, and Deference......Page 152
8. Actions of Capitalists as a Natural Force......Page 155
9. Democratic Creation of the Market......Page 156
10. Imposition of Unreasonable Demands......Page 158
11. Natural Right to Property......Page 159
12. Puzzle About Liberalism......Page 161
1. The Problem......Page 164
2. Bakke and Equal Protection......Page 165
3. Equal Protection and Rights......Page 167
4. Reverse Discrimination......Page 169
5. Implementation......Page 170
Nine: The Procedural Republic......Page 174
1. Conscience and Revolution......Page 184
2. Law......Page 187
PART THREE: Democracy and Routes to Peace......Page 194
Introduction......Page 196
Eleven: Unnecessary Suffering and Superfluous Injury......Page 198
Twelve: Exclusion of Soldiers from War-Making Decisions......Page 214
1. Subjection of the Conscientious Objector......Page 215
2. Rejecting Claims of Selective Objectors......Page 219
3. Advocating Exemptions for Selective Objectors......Page 220
1. Recursive Metaphysics......Page 226
2. Distinction Between Secularism and Theocracy......Page 230
3. Whence Comes Recursive Naturalism?......Page 234
4. Al-Ghazali’s and Kant\'s Critiques of Recursive Metaphysics......Page 237
5. Recursivist Challenge to Democracy......Page 239
1. Peace, Politics, and Morality......Page 244
2. Pacifism and Act-Based Moral Theories......Page 245
3. Virtue-Based Ethics as the Foundation for Pacifism......Page 248
4. Pacifism and Democracy......Page 251
Fifteen: Gandhi and Dewey: Education for Peace......Page 254
1. Philosophies of Education......Page 256
2. Education and Peace......Page 261
3. Peace Education Initiatives Derivable from Gandhi and Dewey......Page 262
4. Education for Peace at Elementary and Secondary Levels......Page 263
6. Education, Peace, and Social Health......Page 264
1. Philosophy and Politics......Page 270
2. Personalizing Politics......Page 271
3. Punditocracy and Pop Culture......Page 272
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P......Page 281
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W......Page 284
About the Contributors......Page 286
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