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11The Criterion of Legitimacy in a Government: Analysing Ian Shapiro’s Concept of Representative DemocracyJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 41 (1): 103-116. 2024.Ian Shapiro proposes a representative government that bases its understanding of truth on mature enlightenment philosophy. He examines various enlightenment and anti-enlightenment theories to substantiate his arguments in favour of verifiability as the criterion for defining truth. Contending such a concept of truth he specifies that it is possible only within a representative democracy as it can systematically undermine socially built readymade systems. To examine Shapiro’s fallibilist approach…Read more
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Philosophy of Language |
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |