The Art of Deliberating: Democracy, Deliberation and the Life Sciences between History and Theory

Title......Page 2
Introduction......Page 6
Contents......Page 11
About the Author......Page 14
 The Many Faces of Democracy......Page 15
 Deliberation and Representation......Page 19
 What Is the Thing We Call Deliberative Democracy?......Page 23
 The Principle of Justificatory Reciprocity and the Principle of Binding Reciprocity......Page 28
 Deliberators Deliberate, and Representatives Represent......Page 32
 Not All Deliberations Lead to a (Good) Consensus, and a (Good) Consensus Does Not Necessarily Result from Deliberation......Page 33
 Why Deliberation Does Not Need Parties......Page 34
 Deliberating Is Legitimating......Page 39
 A Critic of Critics of Deliberation and the Sin of Parrhesia......Page 42
 Aristotle and Deliberation......Page 45
 Delibero, Deliberas, Deliberat, Deliberamus, Deliberates, Deliberant......Page 51
 References......Page 57
 Amid Historical Facts, Historical Interpretations and Philosophical Critiques......Page 59
 A (Short) History of Athenian Democracy......Page 61
 About Isegoria......Page 67
 Dokimasia, Ostracism, Petalism, and Warning Out......Page 70
 … The “Antidemocrats” Came......Page 72
  Pseudo-Xenophon, The Old Oligarch: Against the Government of the Many......Page 75
  Thucydides: Against the Lack of Concern with Public Good......Page 76
  Plato: Against the Immoral and the Uneducated......Page 82
 On Athenian Democracy and Contemporary Democracies......Page 90
 About the Elite......Page 94
 Things to Reflect Upon......Page 98
 References......Page 100
 Where Have All the Good Old Theologians Gone?......Page 102
 Medieval Man Did It Better......Page 104
 Translatio Studii e Translatio Stultitiae......Page 106
 Logic as the Art of Correct Reasoning......Page 109
 Quaestio and Disputatio......Page 111
  Utrum a Human Embryonic Stem Cell Is a Person......Page 112
 Still on Disputes......Page 120
 The Semantic Journey of the Term ‘Rhetoric’......Page 121
 The Canon of Rhetoric......Page 123
  Inventio......Page 124
  Dispositio......Page 127
 Things to Reflect Upon......Page 131
 References......Page 132
 Help! Discussion Is Not Always the Easy Option It Might at First Appear......Page 135
 Symmachus or Ambrose?......Page 138
 Cuius Regio, Eius Religio......Page 144
 Let Us Follow Locke and Be Intolerant of the Intolerant!......Page 149
 Between Passive Disobedience and Active Tolerance......Page 153
 References......Page 157
  Parrhesiasts of the World, Unite!......Page 159
  “A Conclusive ‘Argument’ Never Considered before”......Page 163
  Long Life to Cybrids......Page 167
  “Gather the Experts. Close the Door. Design a Policy. Roll It Out. Reject Criticism”......Page 170
  Cybrids Forever......Page 173
 Perspective Theories against Method Theories......Page 176
 On Good Manners and the Deliberative Canon......Page 181
 An Example of How the Canon Is Implemented......Page 183
 Has the Deliberative Canon Ever Been Implemented?......Page 186
 Speaking of Expertise......Page 187
 References......Page 189
To Conclude......Page 191
Index......Page 192