The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of ValueUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014 M04 23 - 344 pages Widely acclaimed for its originality and penetration, this award-winning study of American thought in the twentieth century examines the ways in which the spread of pragmatism and scientific naturalism affected developments in philosophy, social science, and law, and traces the effects of these developments on traditional assumptions of democratic theory. |
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... assumed certain fundamental and democratic moral beliefs, I became increasingly curious about their rational ... assuming that by themselves either ideas or their logical implications are determinative historical forces. The present work ...
... assumed certain fundamental and democratic moral beliefs, I became increasingly curious about their rational ... assuming that by themselves either ideas or their logical implications are determinative historical forces. The present work ...
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... assumed that anyone who dealt in any “coherent” (and written) way with relevant ideas was an “intellectual.” More specifically, examining the attitudes of academic scholars, I have assumed that anyone who wrote for any professional ...
... assumed that anyone who dealt in any “coherent” (and written) way with relevant ideas was an “intellectual.” More specifically, examining the attitudes of academic scholars, I have assumed that anyone who wrote for any professional ...
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... assumed a comprehensive religious or rationalistic ordering principle, but by the beginning of the twentieth century they increasingly interpreted Darwinism in light of a fully naturalistic world view. They saw change as given, order as ...
... assumed a comprehensive religious or rationalistic ordering principle, but by the beginning of the twentieth century they increasingly interpreted Darwinism in light of a fully naturalistic world view. They saw change as given, order as ...
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... assumption implied a philosophical nominalism that by 1930 many social scientists shared. Ideas were legitimate only insofar as they referred directly to specific, observable things. “The number of valid scientific concepts,” Bain ...
... assumption implied a philosophical nominalism that by 1930 many social scientists shared. Ideas were legitimate only insofar as they referred directly to specific, observable things. “The number of valid scientific concepts,” Bain ...
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... Assuming that all men possessed a culture, regardless of the nature of their society, anthropologists made the term descriptive instead of prescriptive and emphasized the universality of culture as a social determinant and the diversity ...
... Assuming that all men possessed a culture, regardless of the nature of their society, anthropologists made the term descriptive instead of prescriptive and emphasized the universality of culture as a social determinant and the diversity ...
Contents
The Rise of Legal Realism | |
The New Study of Politics | |
America the Rise of European Dictatorships | |
Counterattack | |
Crisis in Jurisprudence | |
Crisis in Social Science | |
Toward a Relativist Theory of Democracy | |
Theoretical Principles Foreign Policy | |
Relativist Democratic Theory Postwar America | |
America as a Normative Concept | |
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