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- Justice and Democracy: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- Book
- 1997
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
summary
Today democracy is increasingly recognized around the world as the only form of government with moral legitimacy. The problems of establishing and preserving truly democratic institutions, however, vary dramatically from culture to culture. Justice and Democracy explores these problems from a wide range of perspectives, theoretical and practical. It addresses problems related to the distortion of democratic decision-making by the gross disparities in wealth that arise in capitalist economies, and, in particular, focuses on the problems relating to the reconciliation of democratic values with the indigenous religious and social values of a culture.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. 5-6
- Part 1. Theoretical Approaches
- Justice as a Larger Loyalty
- pp. 9-22
- Law as Politicians' Morality
- pp. 23-35
- Part 2. Contemporary Problems of Application
- Deliberation, Democracy, Disagreement
- pp. 93-117
- Democracy as Culture
- pp. 119-131
- Part 3. Asian Perspectives
- Confucianism, Modernity, and Asian Democracy
- pp. 163-179
- Gandhi's Conception of Democracy
- pp. 231-240
- Part 4. Comparative Perspectives
- Dewey, China, and the Democracy of the Dead
- pp. 275-291
- Freedom: A Buddhist Critique
- pp. 309-325
- Buddhist Ethics and Social Justice
- pp. 327-341
- Part 5. Postmodern Perspectives
- Subject of Politics, Politics of the Subject
- pp. 363-379
- Democratic Identity and Pluralist Politics
- pp. 381-394
- Part 6. Principles of Cultural Dialogue
- Justice and Global Democracy
- pp. 443-465
- Contributors
- pp. 467-472
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824863197
Related ISBN(s)
9780824819262
MARC Record
OCLC
45733208
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No