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#727 Robert Talisse: Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, Democracy, and Liberalism

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Justification of a Political Order

On what grounds would you say is democracy justified as a political system then? Well, I think that it's helpful just to begin with another, what I see as a pragmatist insight. There's no justification, uber-helped or as such. I want to say there's justification that's not in the sense of the fallacy. That's ad hominem. We are justifying too. The argument is always going to be intrinsically comparative. Democracy is better than some range of options, some feasible, some range of feasible options.

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