Representativeness and deliberation « Spartakan - The Diigo Meta page

• 20 Oct 07
  

  tony curzon price

  debate tcp

  • And the second item in OpenDemocracy (continuing with JS Mill) is a light-weight but readable overview of the different perspectives on debates:

     
     
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      The cheap-talk challenge: what is debate really for? | openDemocracy

       

      Views of debate, comparing Plato, JS Mill, Arendt, Habermas and Cmdr Taco “The space of dialogue either selects the group that already is relevantly equal, or it withers away.”

       

      (tags: democracy internet participation article philosophy)

       
     
     

    Models of debates varying from elitist shaping of the commoners’ opinions, through to expecting them to reflect a community’s consensus(es).

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