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Given that the Democratic perspective is both important and central in the ways indicated in the previous chapter, it is only reasonable to investigate seriously its viability as a basis for social and political planning. There have been numerous attempts to work out a democratic method of running a society or a state, and there have been numerous criticisms of these attempts, on the whole justified. To go through the set of these would be tedious and largely unrewarding, but one should articulate the types of solution that seem plausible, and the kinds of difficulty that they typically face. If the difficulties seem insurmountable it would then become reasonable to see what further moves can be made.
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Hegel, G. (vide.) Philosophy of Right (tr.) Knox (Oxford University Press, 1942) was aware of this problem and tried to solve it by the introduction of the universal class, cf. also Rawls, who tries to short-circuit the differences between individual perspectives by abandoning them.
I. Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics (tr.) T.K. Abbott (London, Longmans, 1946).
cf. E. Durkheim, The Division of Labour in Society (tr.) G. Simpson (London, Macmillan, 1963);
cf. E. Durkheim, and Suicide: A Study in Sociology (tr.) J.A. Spalding & G. Simpson (London, Routledge, 1975).
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Srzednicki, J. (1988). The General Will Leitmotiff. In: The Democratic Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3671-3_3
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