Review Of "The Ethics Of Liberal Democracy: Morality And Democracy In Theory And Practice" Edited By R. P. Churchill

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Book Review

Publication Date

3-1-1995

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Choice

Abstract

Earlier versions of the dozen essays making up this book grew out of a 1991 conference sponsored by The Institute for Advanced Philosophic Research, and versions of 11 have appeared in Contemporary Philosophy. G. Graham's "The Moral Basis of Democrarcy" has already appeared in International Journal of Moral and Social Studies (Summer 1992) and L. M. Heldke's essay "Do You Mind if I Speak Freely?: Reconceptualizing Freedom of Speech" has already appeared in Social Theory and Practice (Vol.17,no.3). The essays are grouped into three sections: "Justifying Democracy?"; "Democracy, the Individual," and "Moral Community"; and "Ethical Issues in Democratic Public Policy." Editor Churchill provides lucid, thoughtful, and useful introductions to each section. The essays by philosophers and political theorists are generally both fresh and of high quality. However, given the price of the book, the inevitable lack of unity among the essays, and the fact that the essays--or versions of them--are available elsewhere, it is not clear why any but graduate libraries need to purchase the collection.

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