PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Deliberative Democracy, Negative And Positive Rights, Individual And Group Rights
31 Dec 2015
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He"s been writing for more than six decades, engaging sociologists, political theorists, philosophers, etc. Habermas engages the liberal/communitarian debate with the aim of presenting a third alternative, namely, that of deliberative democracy which he sees as the appropriate model of democracy. On this model, politics serves to gather public interests and bring it to bear against the administrative power of the state (377) Republicanism: the role of politics is not exhausted by its mediating function between the state and society, but it rather is itself constitutive of the process of socialization. Politics is conceived as the reflexive form of the good life, where the individual member"s identity is constituted through her communal ties. With this change of focus entails for government and society is that in addition to the administrative power and economic self-interest, solidarity appears as third source of social integration (377)
