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Episode 118: Michael Walzer - A Struggle for a Decent Politics

The Political Theory Review

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The Middle Grounds Between a Rousseau and You

If the demos is trying to do all the work all the time, you miss out on the power of experts. So liberalism introduces an aristocratic element into democracy through a representative institution. And liberal is again a kind of restrained opening room for someone who wants to be a good teacher to work hard to make himself herself a good teacher. Which is not allowed by the full fledged Rousseauian doctrine.

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