CritiCAS: A reading on: democracy and/or constitutionalism

jueves, 19 de marzo de 2009

A reading on: democracy and/or constitutionalism

Here I offer a link to an article about the sometimes conflicting relation between democracy and constitutionalism. It is quiet philosophical and it revolves around Habermas' democratic-constitutionalism. You are also invited to look for Habermas' writings on this subject. Nevertheless the former is particularly easy to read, before jumping into the big stone.

"A Bizarre, Even Opaque Practice": Habermas on Constitutionalism and Democracy" by Lasse Thomassen. Website of the American Political Science Association.

It is a good reading for these times of political crisis which is happening in colombia.

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"Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry. Although it is better to be methodical in our investigations, and to consider the economics of research, yet there is no positive sin against logic in 'trying' any theory which may come into our heads, so long as it is adopted in such a sense as to permit the investigation to go on unimpeded and undiscouraged. On the other hand, to set up a philosophy which barricades the road of further advance toward the truth is the one unpardonable offense in reasoning, as it is also the one to which metaphysicians have in all ages shown themselves the most addicted."

C. S. Pierce

"La lucha del hombre contra el poder es la lucha de la memoria contra el olvido."

M. Kundera

''What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don’t want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.''

G. Bateson