| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
DeSante, Christopher David
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| Author's Email Address |
christopher.d.desante@vanderbilt.edu |
| URN |
etd-04012007-230335 |
| Title |
Who's Afraid of Reason? |
| Degree |
Master of Arts |
| Department |
Social and Political Thought |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| W. James Booth |
Committee Chair |
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| Keywords |
- deliberative democracy
- reason
- discourse
- progress
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| Date of Defense |
2007-03-28 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This 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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