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Democratic authority : a philosophical framework / David M. Estlund.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.Description: xi, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780691124179 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0691124175 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8 22
LOC classification:
  • JC423 .E714 2008
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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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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR) 321.8 E79D (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 048617

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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