The Art of Deliberating: Democracy, Deliberation and the Life Sciences Between History and Theory

by Giovanni Boniolo

Book Overview

How many citizens take part in moral and political decisions concerning the results obtained by the contemporary life sciences? Should they blindly follow skilled demagogues or false and deceptive leaders? Should they adhere to the voice of the majority, or should they take a different decisional path? Deliberative democracy answers these questions, but what is deliberative democracy? Can we really deliberate if we are completely ignorant of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642426549
• ISBN13: 9783642426544
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"