Reviews for Democracy, Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics

The average rating for Democracy, Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-13 00:00:00 Starkiesha Coleman I happened upon this book in the Strand while in New York City one day on vacation. I had never heard of it until that moment, but having read Mackie's magisterial The Miracle of Theism last year, I couldn't resist picking it up. As the title suggests, this is a work dealing largely with philosophical problems raised in Locke's great An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Mackie notes in the introduction that he had originally intended the work to be merely "a series of pegs on which to hang" his arguments, and though the final form of the book by and large adheres to topics in the Essay, the occasional tangents betray the original intent of the book. This is not a criticism so much as a warning that this work is not meant as a dedicated commentary on the Essay. It is, however, an excellent companion piece. It's densely written and often quite difficult, but worth the effort.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-09-03 00:00:00 Bryan Cline My favorite secondary source in philosophy.