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Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (Paperback)
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Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy (Paperback)
Series: American Political Thought
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Loot Price R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
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Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in
word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and
timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis ofpopular
sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the
majority? When and why should we revere the law? What are we to do
when the letter of the law is at odds with what we believe justice
requires? How is our devotion to a particular nation related to our
commitment to universal ideals? What is the best way to protect
theright to liberty for all people? The contributors to this
volume, a methodologically and ideologically diverse group of
scholars,examine Lincoln's responses to these and other ultimate
questions in politics. The result is a fascinating portrait of not
only Abraham Lincoln but also the promises and paradoxes of liberal
democracy. The basic liberal democratic idea is that individual
liberty is best secured by a democratic political order that treats
all citizens as equals before the law and is governed by the law,
with its limits on how the state may treat its citizens and on how
citizens may treat one another. Though wonderfully coherent in
theory, these ideasprove problematic in real-world politics. The
authors of this volume approach Lincoln as the embodiment of this
paradox-"naturally antislavery" yet unflinchingly committed to
defending proslavery laws; defender of the common man but troubled
by the excesses of democracy; devoted to the idea of equal natural
rights yet unable to imagine a harmonious, interracial democracy.
Considering Lincoln as he attempted to work out the meaning and
coherence of the liberal democratic project in practice, these
authors craft a profile of the 16th president's political thought
from a variety of perspectives and through multiple lenses.
Together their essays create the first fully-dimensional portrait
of Abraham Lincoln as a political actor, expressing, addressing,
and reframing the perennial questions of liberal democracy for his
time and our own.
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