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If democracy constitutes the institution of morality in a society, it can only be introduced when peace, agreement and consent prevail.
My hope is that is a review of CWC’ The Systems Approach and Its Enemies will provided the reader with a broader understanding of this great work. Re-interpreting CWCs’ ideas in the context of the search of morality in democracy and the adversarial character of different cultures could further our understanding. I argue that the text is relevant to our present dilemmas and problems.
Author’s Note: In some passages where CWC is cited, the quotation marks have been omitted. However, unless clearly indicated by names of other references, the ideas and text clearly pertain to the original CWC’s source.
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Van Gigch, J.P. (2006). The Sytems Approach and Its Enemies Helps Us Find the Morality of a Revised Democracy. In: van Gigch, J.P., McIntyre-Mills, J. (eds) Volume 1: Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself., vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27589-4_4
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