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Democracy and Morality: Religious and Secular Views

Democracy and Morality: Religious and Secular Views

Moore, Margaret
Lenard, Patti Tamara

Paperback

Series: Ethikon Comparative Ethics

PhilosophyReligion General General Political Science

ISBN10: 1538188902
ISBN13: 9781538188903
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Feb 19 2024
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Democracy is a dominant principle and practice to legitimate political power in the modern world, and yet its relationship with other moral traditions is not well understood. some but not all commitments with it (feminism, Classical and Egalitarian variants of Liberalism).
Ethical theories, by their very nature, are universal theories, and tend to be suspicious of democratic legitimacy arguments - since 'the people' who are the source of democratic legitimacy might support some things that are contrary to justice, as described in the tradition. Yet, appeal to democracy remains one of the most powerful appeals to legitimize political power in the contemporary world. This volume is interested in the relationship between democracy and moral traditions whose origins either precede the democratic ideal of legitimacy (Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Natural Law) or developed in some sense along side the democratic ideal and share some of its commitments. This volume explores the relationship between these moral traditions and democracy, including the way in which the moral and religious perspectives have adapted in their encounter with democratic ideals, and have themselves modified democratic theory and practice.

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