Robert Talisse
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27,453 appearances
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first heard Jul 2011
last heard Jan 2025
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Now, according to a familiar picture, democracy is a social order in which the government is driven or directed by the collective will of the people who are governed.
Now, given the size of the modern state, this picture is commonly adjusted to m s may say that democracy is a system of representative government, where there are elected officials who are tasked with governing in ways that reflect the collective will of their constituents, some subset of the overall populace.
Now, even this picture is familiar, but despite its familiarity, this way of depicting democracy invites a range of difficulties.
The concept of a collective will is notoriously difficult to nail down, and some people even think it's incoherent.
Moreover, the idea that modern elections reveal or express such a will remains dubious.
Accordingly, a good deal of democratic theory aims to fill in some of the missing details regarding the collective will and its representation.
However, in the dispersion of power, Samuel Bagg takes a different tack by proposing a vision of democracy where the central aim of democracy is not to represent the popular will, so much as to protect public power from capture.
Now as usual, there's a lot to talk about, but luckily uh we have the author with us and we'll begin by asking uh our guest to say something about uh himself.
Hi Sam, how are you?
Well, thank you uh for for joining me.
It's really uh was a pleasure to read the book.
Um well as I just mentioned, you know, we we we start off these uh discussions uh with the author saying something about himself.
Can you tell us something about yourself?
Right.
For listeners who might not know, PPE is just the the hybrid discipline.
I think we're safe to call it a discipline now.
Uh philosophy, politics and economics.
Yeah.
That's the mark of a successful dissertation.
As soon as you're done with it, you realize that it's not, you know, really reflective of what you think about anything anymore and needs to be, you know, completely revised.
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