The Deliberative Impulse: Motivating Discourse in Divided Societies

ISBN-13: 9780739146095 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 190 str.

Andrew Smith

Opis

Andrew F. Smith argues that citizens of divided societies have three powerful incentives to engage in public deliberation_in free, open, and reasoned dialogue aimed at contributing to the establishment of well-developed laws. When contesting for political influence, or pursuing the enshrinement of one's convictions in law, deliberating publicly is a necessary condition for taking oneself to be a responsible moral, epistemic, and religious agent.