Chwaszcza, Christine ORCID: 0000-0003-3847-3148 (2021). Democracy as a Social Practice. metodo, 8 (1). pp. 25-50. ISSN 2281-9177

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Majority rule is an essential element of the institution of democratic government. In three steps, I will explore the conditions of its acceptance as a mechanism of pure procedural legitimacy. Starting from H.L.A. Hart's analysis of the concept 'rule', I will argue that the validating conditions of rules are not normativ beliefs or reasons, but essentially social patterns of conduct and reasoning that manifest themselves in political agency and discourse. Secondly, I will outline a normative rationale that defends majority rule as a source of genuinely 'political' legitimacy under conditions of social pluralism. Finally, I will explain why majority rule's legitimating potential requires that political agency and discourse accept the separation of the political sphere from private spheres.

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Chwaszcza, Christine
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Croci, Giacomo
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Gerlek, Selin
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URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-455287
Journal or Publication Title: metodo
Volume: 8
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 25-50
Date: 2021
ISSN: 2281-9177
Language: English
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 8: Philosophie > Philosophisches Seminar
Subjects: Philosophy
Refereed: No
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/45528

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