Plato, Pragmatism, and Democracy: A response to the Guardianship argument
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Politics, Authoritarianism, Pragmatism, DemocracyAbstract
This paper aims at refuting the platonic argumentation, characterized by a political elitism which results in an “epistemic authoritarianism”, presenting a more democratically attainable proposal, based in the quest for political solutions via public deliberation, i. e., by offering a pragmatic-deliberativist positioning aiming at a “democratic revitalization”. For that reason, a parallel analysis between the platonic and the pragmatic and liberal political proposals in order to demonstrate the viability of a participative democracy.
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