Self-Government and Authority: Interpretation of Democratic Theory
FAIN: FS-10278-76
Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Alfred G. Meyer (Project Director: January 1976 to present)
This seminar will examine the democratic political tradition by surveying the assumptions about human nature, human purposes, and human understanding on which it is founded, and by posing questions about the conditions of legitimate authority on a democratic society.