Thinking About Political Legitimation (with both Realism & Idealism)
Realism demands that a crisis of democratic legitimacy as such has to be thinkable. Idealism demands that belief in legitimacy can and must be justified.
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Can’t we all just get along?
Rodney King
How can society be such that man should be free, reason practical, and the will good? This is the question…
Agnes Heller, Beyond Justice
Realism demands that a crisis of democratic legitimacy as such has to be thinkable. Idealism demands that belief in legitimacy can and must be justified.
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Continue readingAnti-corruption, along with liberty, is deeply rooted in the republican intentions of the US Constitution.
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