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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Brendan Sweetman
- 01 Feb 1997 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 1, pp 153-155
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This article is published in Review of Metaphysics.The article was published on 1997-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2568 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Democracy.

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Deliberation interrupted Confronting Jürgen Habermas with Claude Lefort

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Let’s Talk Politics: Which Individual and Classroom Compositional Characteristics Matter in Classroom Discussions?

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Birthrights: Freedom, Responsibility, and Democratic Comportment in Aeschylus' Oresteia

TL;DR: The authors argued for the critical importance of intergenerational justice to democratic theory, and explored the difficulties of democratic responsibility given the tension between necessity and freedom central to questions of generational justice, and concluded with a consideration of this aspect of democracy in contemporary political life.
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