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• Title: Robert B. Talisse, Democracy and Moral Conflict (Book Review)
• Author : Social Theory and Practice
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 184 KB

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Robert B. Talisse, Democracy and Moral Conflict (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), ix + 205 pp. Robert Talisse's book addresses what he calls "the problem of deep politics." Modern democracies are pluralistic, in that citizens disagree, reasonably, over many of their most basic moral commitments, and will inevitably do so, assuming basic freedoms remain in place. For any moral justification of democracy, this pluralism poses "a potentially crushing dilemma," which Talisse terms "the paradox of democratic justification" (15-16). It is a core democratic idea that the legitimate exercise of political power depends on the consent of the governed. From this premise it allegedly follows that government must be justified in terms of principles that everyone could reasonably be expected to accept. Yet the fact of moral pluralism includes inevitable reasonable disagreement about what is fair and just, as well as about ideals of the good life. Appeals to foundational values such as freedom or equality will be "essentially controversial," in that "no elaboration of the details of the content of such values can hope to win widespread and sustainable agreement" (4). Thus it seems that no moral case for democracy can meet the standard of justification that democracy itself requires.

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