02916nam 2200637Ia 450 991034515770332120200520144314.094-012-0330-X1-4294-5649-3(CKB)1000000000471114(EBL)556679(OCoLC)711570451(SSID)ssj0000227990(PQKBManifestationID)12043251(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227990(PQKBWorkID)10269953(PQKB)10391957(Au-PeEL)EBL556679(CaPaEBR)ebr10380120(MiAaPQ)EBC556679(EXLCZ)99100000000047111420061129d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrProblems for democracy /edited by John Kultgen and Mary LenziAmsterdam ;New York Rodopi20061 online resource (317 p.)Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of peace ;181Papers presented at the annual conference of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) on Problems for Democracy, held in Columbia, Mo.90-420-2060-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.CONTENTS; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace?; PART ONE: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse; PART TWO: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes; PART THREE: Democracy and Routes to Peace; Bibliography; About the Contributors; IndexThis 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.Value inquiry book series.Philosophy of peace.Value inquiry book series ;v. 181.Peace-buildingDemocracyPolitical sciencePhilosophyPeace-building.Democracy.Political sciencePhilosophy.321.8Kultgen John H902716Lenzi Mary902717Concerned Philosophers for Peace.Conference on Problems for Democracy(Columbia, Mo.)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910345157703321Problems for democracy2017990UNINA