Abstract:
‘Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means …’ Noted philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre is here challenging the possibility of liberal democracy. Democratic unity, he holds, depends on a shared conception of justice: substantial agreement on how the benefits and burdens of membership are to be shared. Since liberal democracy implies a plurality of views on this matter, MacIntyre argues that agreement is impossible, and public policy debate is but the waging of war in words.
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