Can a democratic society propose an account of its practices and
institutions that is at once adequately robust to answer
antidemocrats and sufficiently inclusive to ein the assent of
citizens who disagree about philosophical, moral, and religious
essentials? A robust theory will draw upon controversial
philosophical premises, and will thereby fail to respect the deep
plurism characteristic of a free society. Anything less than a
robust philosophical theory, however, will raise questions of why
anyone should prefer democracy to mild oligarchy or peaceful
tyranny. In Democracy After Liberalism, Robert B. Talisse
critically evaluates liberalism, the dominant attempt in the
tradition of political philosophy to provide a philosophical
foundation for democracy. Combining recent work on deliberative
democracy with C. S. Peirce's pragmatism, Talisse argues for an
epistemic conception of deliberative democracy to meet this need.
Although the resulting view is not liberal, it eschews the problems
confronting communitarianism by insisting that the formative role
of the state is epistemological rather than moral.
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