CS351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Instrumental And Value Rationality, Liberal Democracy, Consumerism

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Nineteenth and early twentieth-century ideas of democracy assumed a pedagogical understanding of politics. One was never born political even if it were thought that every human being had the capacity of the potential to take part in political life. It was assumed that becoming a citizen, possessing and exercising rights called for appropriate forms of education. Societies were understood to have both high and low forms of culture. Education provided the capacity for discernment- access to high culture- that the citizen needed. A crucial aspect of this education was the capacity for abstract conceptualization and reasoning. The book became the key object to embodying this assumption. The importance given to the written language as the medium go instruction signi ed the high place accorded in this mode of thought to the trained, human capacity for abstraction. Abstract reasoning made it possible for the citizen to conceptualize such imaginary entities as class, public or national interest and adjudicate between competing claims.

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