> On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Gary Richmond <gary.richm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The context for Peirce thinking about democracy and political economy are > obviously his religious ideas. Central concepts in this context are love and > greed/ altruism and egoism. This brings immediatly Aristoteles classification > of forms of government to my mind (Pol. III, 6 f.). > >
I’d imagine the interesting question regarding democracy is how it relates to societal inquiry. That is the more interesting question is less the boundaries of democracy as compared to competing institutions than the different types of governments within democracy. An obvious example is top down type governance verses bottom up or emergent government. The former tends to be what progressivism embraces (either the early 20th century Bismarkian inspired form or the more contemporary form) whereas in theory conservatism embraces the later. This also gets at the issue of federalism (which given Trump some liberals are starting to embrace).
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