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Lot and Democratic Representation: A Modest Proposal
- Alex Zakaras
- Political Science
- 1 September 2010
Elections and democracy have not always been closely associated. As historians of democracy often point out, classical Athenians believed that lottery – not election – was the most democratic means…
J. S. Mill's Political Thought: John Stuart Mill, Individuality, and Participatory Democracy
- Alex Zakaras
- Political Science
- 2007
Democracy, children, and the environment: a case for commons trusts
- Alex Zakaras
- Law
- 3 March 2016
This essay argues that our unsustainable degradation of the natural environment violates fundamental, democratic obligations to children. I argue, first, that obligations to children are clearer and…
A Liberal Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and John Stuart Mill
- Alex Zakaras
- PhilosophyThe Review of Politics
- 29 January 2013
Abstract The essay explores the relationship between value pluralism, as Isaiah Berlin understood it, and liberalism. It consists of two main parts. In the first part, I argue that value pluralism…
Reply to Galston and Crowder
- Alex Zakaras
- ArtThe Review of Politics
- 29 January 2013
I am grateful to both William Galston and George Crowder for their thoughtful responses. In writing the original essay, I had two goals in mind. First, I wanted to give an accurate reading of Isaiah…
J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment
- N. Urbinati, Alex Zakaras
- History
- 29 January 2007
List of contributors Introduction Nadia Urbaniti and Alex Zakaras Part I. Liberty and its Limits: 1. Mill on liberty and on the Contagious Diseases Act Jeremy Waldron 2. Rational freedom in John…
Individuality and Mass Democracy: Mill, Emerson, and the Burdens of Citizenship
- Alex Zakaras
- History
- 14 October 2009
PART 1: DEMOCRATIC INDIVIDUALITY 1. Responsible Citizenship 2. Docility and Democracy 3. The Ideal of Individuality PART II: EMERSON 4. The Docile Individual 5. Emersonian Transitions 6. Withdrawal…
Individuality, Radical Politics, and the Metaphor of the Machine
- Alex Zakaras
- Economics
- 29 March 2010
The concept of individuality expresses an ideal of personal emancipation and self-realization. For many philosophers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, individuality was the highest…
Isaiah Berlin's Cosmopolitan Ethics
- Alex Zakaras
- Art
- 1 August 2004
This essay offers a reinterpretation of Isaiah Berlin’s value pluralism. It argues that pluralism is above all an ethical stance by means of which Berlin asserts the importance of empathy,…
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