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Episode #130 ... Dewey and Lippman on Democracy

Philosophize This!

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Public Opinion Is the Driving Force Behind Democracy

Litman says there are several fundamental problems with the structure of democracies that have existed in the past. The place, a lot of these problems stim from democracy's reliance on public opinion. Litman: In practice, things just don't work out the way the founders of our modern democracies had in mind. He talks about how back then, not everybody could vote.

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