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Democracy: Two Truncated Definitions
Democracy :
- as regulative ideal
- as aspirational ideal
- as empty space
- as end of the body politic
- in need of reform
- to come
- inadequate to the task (what task?)
- deliberative
- radical
- liberal
- procedural
Attempts at Definition:
- The form of government most constituted by the contesting of its content.
- Or alternately, the form of government that best maintains the hyphen separating the ethico from the political.
By kenrufo | July 15, 2006 in Democracy | Permalink
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Ken, I like both your definitions (actually I think they're almost the same). Can I vote for both, or is that against the rules?
Posted by: Adam Thurschwell | Jul 16, 2006 12:38:23 AM
Ken--devil's advocate on one point: is it possible that monarchy could be the form of government that best maintains the hyphen? We might think in terms of Kantorwitz and the King's two bodies, where the physical body is politics and the emphemeral body is the ethical; or, we might think this with respect to Hegel where the very point of the monarch is to dot the i's and say "I will", providing the political anchor for ethical life.
Posted by: Jodi | Jul 16, 2006 10:35:58 AM
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