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Democratic authority : a philosophical framework / David M. Estlund.
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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.Description: xi, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780691124179 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0691124175 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 321.8 22
- JC423 .E714 2008
Contents:
Democratic authority -- Truth and despotism -- An acceptability requirement -- The limits of fair procedure -- The flight from substance -- Epistemic proceduralism -- Authority and normative consent -- Original authority and the democracy/jury analogy -- How would democracy know? -- The real speech situation -- Why not an epistocracy of the educated? -- The irrelevance of the jury theorem -- Rejecting the democracy/contractualism analogy -- Utopophobia : concession and aspiration in democratic theory.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-302) and index.
Democratic authority -- Truth and despotism -- An acceptability requirement -- The limits of fair procedure -- The flight from substance -- Epistemic proceduralism -- Authority and normative consent -- Original authority and the democracy/jury analogy -- How would democracy know? -- The real speech situation -- Why not an epistocracy of the educated? -- The irrelevance of the jury theorem -- Rejecting the democracy/contractualism analogy -- Utopophobia : concession and aspiration in democratic theory.
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