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Josiah Ober on the Civic Bargain

2022/9/8
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How do you solve the question of collective self-government by citizens? Josiah Ober) discusses a fundamental problem of democratic societies: how we come to agree on courses of action when we commit to living within a democracy. His argument is that we need to become civic friends, a concept he explains in the conversation.