Reason and democracy / Thomas A. Spragens, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spragens, Thomas A., Jr. (Thomas Arthur), 1942-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reason and Democracy breaks new ground in providing a plausible philosophical basis for the communitarian view of a healthy democracy as the rational pursuit of common purposes by free and equal citizens. Thomas A. Spragens Jr. argues that the most persistent paradigms of Western political rationality originated in classical philosophy, took their modern expression in the philosophies of Kant and Mill, and terminated in Max Weber's pairing of purely technical rationality with arbitrary ends.Drawing on recent work in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language, combined with approp

Contents:

Reason, Rational Practice, and Political Theory: The Making of a Problem

Rationality in Science and Language: From Syntax to Pragmatics

Post-Positivist Praxis: The Constitution of Rational Enterprises

Politics as a Rational Enterprise

Citizenship in the Republic of Reason

Understanding Liberal Democracy

Approximating a Rational Society.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-275) and index.

ISBN:

9786612919961

9781282919969

1282919962

9780822382980

0822382989

OCLC:

850215161