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Josiah Ober on the Civic Bargain

Philosophy Bites

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Is There a Way of Savaging Democracy?

If citizens can't strike a bargain that maintains security and welfare, then democracy is in crisis. The level of ideological polarization has gotten to the point in which citizens tend to see one another as enemies. And i think this really, i where the western democracies have really fallen down. We no longer see the education of citizens in the dispositions or the habits of citizenship," he says.

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