True and False Democracy
Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
Publisher: New York, Macmillan 1907.
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13:
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True and False Democracy
True and False Democracy
Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9781330272688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from True and False Democracy If knowledge is power, surely there are times when ignorance seems more powerful still. No lessons are so little learned as those of past human experience in politics. In each succeeding generation men come forward who are rash or foolish enough to attempt any experiment, no matter how discredited, and vain enough to attack any tradition or institution, no matter how fully justified and established. They foment disturbing change and prevent progress. The name democracy is old, but the thing itself is quite new. Until the rise of public opinion, democracy in the modern sense was not possible. Nevertheless, human nature has been pretty much the same since history began, and human strength and human weakness have been exhibited and tested in almost every possible way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
TRUE & FALSE DEMOCRACY
Author: Nicholas Murray 1862-1947 Butler
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781372191244
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True and False Democracy (Classic Reprint)
Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780331682939
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from True and False Democracy The modern newspaper has greatly extended the rule of the fo'rmula or the phrase. The head-line of to - day is the rallying - cry of to - mor row. A motto is substituted for a principle. The words democracy, democratic, undemocratic, are constantly used in this way for purposes that are either bad or misleading. The appeal is to the mob, not to the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Of True and False Democracy
True and False Democracy. [1915]
Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780649725397
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Of True and False Democracy
Democracy and Truth
Author: Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-11-29
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0812250842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Fake news," wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as lies—citizens of democracies increasingly inhabit a public sphere teeming with competing claims and counterclaims, with no institution or person possessing the authority to settle basic disputes in a definitive way. The problem may be novel in some of its details—including the role of today's political leaders, along with broadcast and digital media, in intensifying the epistemic anarchy—but the challenge of determining truth in a democratic world has a backstory. In this lively and illuminating book, historian Sophia Rosenfeld explores a longstanding and largely unspoken tension at the heart of democracy between the supposed wisdom of the crowd and the need for information to be vetted and evaluated by a learned elite made up of trusted experts. What we are witnessing now is the unraveling of the détente between these competing aspects of democratic culture. In four bracing chapters, Rosenfeld substantiates her claim by tracing the history of the vexed relationship between democracy and truth. She begins with an examination of the period prior to the eighteenth-century Age of Revolutions, where she uncovers the political and epistemological foundations of our democratic world. Subsequent chapters move from the Enlightenment to the rise of both populist and technocratic notions of democracy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the troubling trends—including the collapse of social trust—that have led to the rise of our "post-truth" public life. Rosenfeld concludes by offering suggestions for how to defend the idea of truth against the forces that would undermine it.
