Who's Afraid of Reason?

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dc.contributor.committeeChairW. James Booth
dc.creatorDeSante, Christopher David
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-22T00:20:55Z
dc.date.available2008-04-14
dc.date.issued2007-04-14
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the role of Reason-guided reason-giving in the deliberative democratic arena as a response to the theories of Iris Young, Chantal Mouffe and Lynn Sanders. I will aim to do two things. First, I will trace some path of logic-centered political philosophy and understand the role of reason as both subject and object in this genealogy. Secondly, and in the final sections I shall move to articulate the role of Reason, explicitly, in democratic philosophy. The theory that I will put forth is that the privileging of Reason, or of Reason-guided reason-giving, should be the ultimate standard for deliberative democratic discourse.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-04012007-230335
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/11894
dc.subjectdeliberative democracy
dc.subjectreason
dc.subjectdiscourse
dc.subjectprogress
dc.titleWho's Afraid of Reason?
dc.typethesis
dc.type.materialtext
local.embargo.lift2008-04-14
local.embargo.terms2008-04-14
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial and Political Thought
thesis.degree.grantorVanderbilt University
thesis.degree.levelthesis
thesis.degree.nameMA

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