Democracy and Tradition

Online Community and Democracy

The debate over the contribution of the Internet to democracy is farfrom settled. Some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the US to argue thatthe Internet will restore the public sphere. Others claim that the Internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. This paper argues f...

Analysis and Criticism of Epistemological Approach to Democracy and Impossibility of Religious Democracy

In this article the author clarifies his epistemological approach to democracy based on its two crucial principles namely autonomy and dialogue. He has demonstrated that distinguished scholars of this approach deny the integration of religion and democracy and believe in the impossibility of religious democracy. Given this theory, the author has criticized humanological and epistemological foun...

Democracy, Tradition, and the Local Community I. the Philosophical Roots of Modern Liberalism Iii. Macintyre's Critique of Contemporary Liberalism

Both Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeffrey Stout are concerned social critics who lament many of the features of contemporary life and political and ethical discourse. They both see the global market and government bureaucracies as institutional arrangements that often rob their citizens of the capacity to hold reasoned debates about important matters and lead virtuous, meaningful lives. And both want...

Freedom, Reason, and Tradition

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Moderation between tradition tradition and modernism the experience of Isfahan`s Jooybareh neighborhood