In Our Name : : The Ethics of Democracy /

In Our Name : : The Ethics of Democracy / / Eric Beerbohm.

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 i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Beerbohm, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. How to Value Democracy
  • Chapter 2. Paper Stones
  • Chapter 3. Philosophers-Citizens
  • Chapter 4. Superdeliberators
  • Chapter 5. What Is It Like to Be a Citizen?
  • Chapter 6. Democracy's Ethics of Belief
  • Chapter 7. The Division of Democratic Labor
  • Chapter 8. Representing Principles
  • Chapter 9. Democratic Complicity
  • Chapter 10. Not in My Name
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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