TY - BOOK AU - Kultgen,John AU - Lenzi,Mary TI - Problems for Democracy T2 - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 SN - 9789401203302 AV - JC423.P736 2006 U1 - 321.8 23 PY - 2006/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - BRILL KW - Democracy KW - Peace-building KW - Political science KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Judith PRESLER: Editorial Foreword -- John KULTGEN: Preface -- John KULTGEN and Mary LENZI: Acknowledgments -- Donald A.WELLS, Ronald J. GLOSSOP, Beth J.SINGER, and Mary LENZI: Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace? -- Part One: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse -- Introduction -- Ron HIRSCHBEIN and Jason SUPPUS: Semiotics of Meaninglessness: Cornel West 's Explication of Inner-City Nihilism -- Howard HARRIOTT: Moral Pessimism and the Ideals of Democracy -- Edward SANKOWSKI: South African Democracy, Multi-Culturalism, Rights, and Community -- Gilburt GOFFSTEIN: Exploring Problems of Democracy with Perspectives of Jürgen Habermas and Zen Buddhism -- Jerald RICHARDS: Hiroshima, Morality, and Democracy -- Part Two: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes -- Introduction -- William C. GAY: Democracy in Market Economies -- Thomas CHRISTIANO: Political Equality and the Independent Power of Private Property -- Beth J. SINGER: Rights and Affirmative Action -- Judith PRESLER: The Procedural Republic -- Matthew SILLIMAN: Living Democracy Despite the Rule of Law: Civil Disobedience as Political Narrative -- Part Three: Democracy and Routes to Peace -- Introduction -- Donald A.WELLS: Unnecessary Suffering and Superfluous Injury -- Brian LUKE: Exclusion of Soldiers from War-Making Decisions -- Ali ERRISHI: Recursive Metaphysics Is Bad for Democracy -- Andrew KELLEY: Toward a Reformulation of the Doctrine of Pacifism -- Gregory P. FIELDS: Gandhi and Dewey: Education for Peace -- Mary LENZI: Philosophers, Peace, and Problems for Democracy -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index N2 - This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysics and democracy, the relationship between the economic and political orders, and the nature of justice. Contributors offer, as well, enlightening resolutions of practical problems resulting from a history of social, political or economic injustice UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401203302 ER -