In our name : the ethics of democracy /
Beerbohm, Eric Anthony, 1975-
In our name : the ethics of democracy / Eric Beerbohm. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 352 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- How to value democracy -- Paper stones, the ethics of participation -- Philosophers-citizens -- Superdeliberators -- What is it like to be a citizen? -- Democracy's ethics of belief -- The division of democratic labor -- Representing principles -- Democratic complicity -- Not in my name, macrodemocratic design.
When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--""Not in our name!""--Testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship.
9781400842384 (electronic bk.) 1400842387 (electronic bk.)
7253068
22573/cttmq8d JSTOR
2011050138
Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Democracy.
Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
JC423 / .B319 2012eb
172
In our name : the ethics of democracy / Eric Beerbohm. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 352 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- How to value democracy -- Paper stones, the ethics of participation -- Philosophers-citizens -- Superdeliberators -- What is it like to be a citizen? -- Democracy's ethics of belief -- The division of democratic labor -- Representing principles -- Democratic complicity -- Not in my name, macrodemocratic design.
When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--""Not in our name!""--Testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship.
9781400842384 (electronic bk.) 1400842387 (electronic bk.)
7253068
22573/cttmq8d JSTOR
2011050138
Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Democracy.
Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
JC423 / .B319 2012eb
172