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The importance of pragmatism for liberal democracy: an anti-foundationalist and deliberative approach to multiculturalism

Trifirò, Fabrizio
2010
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1825-5167
http://hdl.handle.net/10077/4679
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The paper illustrates the desirability of an anti-foundationalist approach to normativity for the fullest realization of the liberal democratic project. The first section defends the viability, epistemic and normative, of an anti-foundationalism inspired to the antimetaphysical and anti-sceptical legacy of the founders of American pragmatism. The second section, drawing on the deliberative turn in democratic theory and the capability approach to autonomy, introduces what I regard to be the normative core of liberal democracy. The third section fleshes out the desirability argument by looking at how a pragmatist approach to normativity allows liberal democracies to address in a fully deliberative spirit the challenges posed by the growing cultural diversity of contemporary societies associated with contemporary processes of globalization.
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Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
XII (2010) 1
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  • Normativity

  • democracy

  • foundationalism

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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Fabrizio Trifirò, "The importance of pragmatism for liberal democracy: an anti-foundationalist and deliberative approach to multiculturalism", in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XII (2010) 1, pp. 68−85.
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