YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :US Democracy Pragmatism and Virtue
Essays 61 - 90
The books Democracy Under Pressure by Cummings and Wise and Burkhart, Krislov, and Lee's The Clash of Issues are examined in six p...
a negative concept, the idea of proposing limits based upon monetary consumption is a direct violation of the democratic system up...
his approach, Eisenhower used the phrase "new look", and one of the current terminology "new world order" actually evolved during...
In five pages this paper examines democracy as it is represented in the US system in terms of its characteristics and the Constitu...
its foundation in free speech and a multiplicity of opinions and options for learning. In other words, the best educational syste...
In seven pages this paper discusses Athenian democracy in terms of concept, the 'Constitution' of Aristotle, the criticisms of Pla...
freedom was only for themselves. Anyone not agreeing with the religious tenets of the Puritans was ostracized from all Puritan co...
for all citizens of a nation. Then we have Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher whose focus was on morals. He was, interestingly ...
color and female people were patently excluded. Despite the many changes that have taken place in Americas democracy, especially i...
administrators and staff; and effective/efficient operation. "...All aspects of [teacher] preparation programs, from mission to e...
job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade. Black Odyssey ...
a system of checks and balances. It is designed to meet the needs of as many people as possible (Montgomer, 2003). It seeks to avo...
"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. O...
in some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blind...
seeking it have been unable to achieve it on their own. This is high praise and noble purpose for a structure that Madison called...
in history by the Western Enlightenment where one writers and philosopher after another philosophized on such concepts. Democrati...
differences that exist between these two governmental styles and the autocratic government style. Fortunately, there are ...
stable world, one with less aggression between countries and the more democracies there are in the world, the more peaceful the wo...
electoral college. The merit of the system can be questioned in todays environment of instant communications, but it was quite ef...
individual study has its place. I think there needs to be a balance in the curriculum, although, I do agree with Deweys integratio...
citizens." The term "direct representation" is somewhat of an oxymoron as many have come to look at democracy as either a direct d...
phrase" (The vocabulary of ontology: truth (from aletheia to veritas), 2006-hereafter vocabulary of ontology). That is, "instead ...
this approach illustrates how the pragmatist truth "was an entity which evolves and the force which drives its evolution is its pr...
democracy is as fearlessly new today as when it was first proposed. "If it does not have to be reinvented, it certainly has to be ...
In seven pages democracy is defined along with differences noted between such types as representative and direct with a student su...
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the democracy perspectives of Cyril Lionel Robert James and Alexis de Tocqueville...
In fourteen pages this paper examines the philosophies of postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, analytic, reconstructionism, beh...
restless even though prosperous is bold. His work is again just as relevant today as it was at the time it was written. In fact, R...
In ten pages Russia's attempts to establish both democracy and a free market economy are evaluated in terms of the concepts discus...