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Western Creed: Western Identity |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Jude P. Dougherty |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1998 |
| Size: 5,219 Words, 32,954 Characters |
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As the turn of the century approaches, calls for the renewal of America abound. There is a widespread belief that something is amiss, that the nation's policymakers have lost their way. This is driven home by the employment of a relatively new term that has entered the vocabulary of political theorists, left and right. The concept "procedural democracy" is used to designate a democratic government that remains neutral among competing conceptions of the good, endorsing none in accommodating all. A procedural democracy eschews value judgments on the assumption that it is not the business of government to espouse or advance one conception of the good over another. If we have not already taken it, such is the road to disaster, say many social theorists, among them George Sher, whose Beyond Neu...
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...rs from the Berlin Embassy: Selections From the Private Correspondence of British Representatives at Berlin and Foreign Secretary Lord Granville, 1871--1874, 1880--1885, annual report of the American Historical Association for 1942 (Washington, D.C., 1944), 5.
FOOTNOTE: 27.De Rougemont, Meaning of Europe, 16. FOOTNOTE: 28.De Rougemont, Meaning of Europe, 16.29.Marty, The One and the Many.
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