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Author : Kirina Nikola Archer Mba Mha
ISBN : 9798681751144
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As you are reading these opening lines, the Creator (God, a higher power, infinite intelligence, the universe, or whatever you feel comfortable calling this source), is at work all around you. You can see signs and symbols throughout nature; you can hear Him speak to you through music, through the sounds of nature, or even through the cry of a baby. We feel and hear these things through our intuition, or sensations we may experience within us. Have you ever felt a knot in the pit of your stomach? Or heard a voice in your mind confirming that something is right (or maybe not right)? These are just some of the ways that this infinite power of the universe communicates with us.
Author : Corey Brettschneider
ISBN : 9780691171296
Genre : Philosophy
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How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups and allowing their views to spread, or banning their views and violating citizens' rights to freedoms of expression, association, and religion. Avoiding the familiar yet problematic responses to these issues, political theorist Corey Brettschneider proposes a new approach called value democracy. The theory of value democracy argues that the state should protect the right to express illiberal beliefs, but the state should also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks through its various expressive capacities: publicly criticizing, and giving reasons to reject, hate-based or other discriminatory viewpoints. Distinguishing between two kinds of state action--expressive and coercive--Brettschneider contends that public criticism of viewpoints advocating discrimination based on race, gender, or sexual orientation should be pursued through the state's expressive capacities as speaker, educator, and spender. When the state uses its expressive capacities to promote the values of free and equal citizenship, it engages in democratic persuasion. By using democratic persuasion, the state can both respect rights and counter hateful or discriminatory viewpoints. Brettschneider extends this analysis from freedom of expression to the freedoms of religion and association, and he shows that value democracy can uphold the protection of these freedoms while promoting equality for all citizens.
