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Defining Democracy |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE RECOVERY OF VIRTUE |
| Author: Claes G. Ryn |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 6,847 Words, 43,394 Characters |
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Western constitutional democracy is under increasing pressure from hostile forces. Its ability to defend itself against foreign threats and internal corrosion is in serious question today. One reason why Western democracy has great difficulty asserting itself coherently is its failure to articulate its essential identity. This failure is not merely intellectual but symptomatic of a larger inability to satisfy the moral and cultural prerequisites for this demanding form of government. The Western democracies are torn by deepening contradictions. Within a system of government that is singularly dependent on a realistic view of man and the world, utopian notions of politics enjoy great influence.
It is widely overlooked that democracy can be defined in radically different ways. The...
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...he prospects for genuine popular self government.
It may be that Western civilization has the resilience and creativity sufficient to save constitutional democracy. Should that be the happy end, it will not be because of boosterish democratist crusades but because Western man is able to recover his bearings through morals, intellectual, and aesthetic revitalization of his civilization.
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