The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment Cappelen Herman
The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment Cappelen Herman This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. This…
Specifikacia The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment Cappelen Herman
The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment Cappelen Herman
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. This book defends a radical view: these words mean nothing and should be abandoned. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.If we don't know what the words 'democracy' and 'democratic' mean, then we don't know what democracy is.
According to the abolitionist, the switch to alternative devices would be a significant communicative, cognitive, and political advance.The first part of the book presents a general theory of abandonment: the conditions under which language should be abandoned. The argument for Abolitionism is simple: those terms are defective and we can easily do better, so let's get rid of them. The rest of the book applies this general theory to the case of 'democracy' and