PHIL 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Deliberative Democracy, Negative And Positive Rights, Statin
16 Nov 2017
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Habermas engages the liberal/communitarian debate with the aim of presenting a third alternative, namely, that of deliberative democracy. On this model politics serves to gather private public interests and bring them to bear against the administration power of the state. On the republican model the role of politics is not exhausted by its mediating function between the state and society, but rather is itself constitutive of the process of socialization. Politics is (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ei(cid:448)ed as the refle(cid:454)i(cid:448)e for(cid:373) of the good life, (cid:449)here the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er"s ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455) is constituted through her communal ties. What this change of focus entails for government and society is that in addition to the administrative power and economic self-interest, solidarity appears as third source of social integration. These two views on politics and democracy have different implications for conceptions of citizenship, law, and the nature of political process.
