Rousseau, Individuation Through Deliberation: Civic Asceticism, the True End of Democracy
Democracy is not simply the chaotic expression of a popular will. Its ultimate goal is individuation through deliberation, through constructive dissensus. Decision is a means that responsabilizes and empowers the citizen. Rousseau’s civic asceticism becomes the goal, democracy the path. #Democracy #Deliberation #Individuation #Rousseau #CivicAsceticism Democracy is often presented…
L’individuation par la délibération : l’ascèse civique, véritable fin de la démocratie
La démocratie ne se réduit pas à l’expression chaotique d’une volonté populaire. Son but ultime est l’individuation par la délibération, à travers un dissensus constructif. La décision est un moyen qui responsabilise et autonomise le citoyen. L’ascèse civique de Rousseau devient l’objectif, la démocratie, le chemin. #Démocratie #Délibération #Individuation #Rousseau #AscétismeCivique…
Sovereignty Dissolved: Double Delegation from Politics to Technology
Liberal democracy delegates power not only to elected officials and elites but also to technical systems, experts, and algorithms. Thinking about emancipation requires resisting this dual dispossession. #Sovereignty #Technology #Deliberation #Habermas #Castoriadis #Critique The critique of liberal representative democracy must be radicalized by highlighting a double delegation of sovereignty. The…
Towards a Shared Rationality: Moving Beyond the Democratic Megamachine
Real democracy cannot exist without a truly shared rationality. Our current systems instrumentalize reason to serve short-termism and dominant interests. To escape the “megamachine,” we must rehabilitate collective deliberation, accept constructive dissensus, and aim for lasting consensus born of authentic dialogue. #RadicalDemocracy #Deliberation #Rationality Shared Rationality vs. Instrumentalized…
Consensus or Conflict? The Paradox of Deliberation, Soft Tyranny, and Democratic Vitality
Rational deliberation thrives not on forced consensus, but on constructive conflict and dissent—a fragile democratic art weakened by lost dialectics and absent rhetorical training. Embracing pluralism protects freedom from the “soft tyranny” of unanimity. 🇬🇧 EN 🇫🇷 FR #Deliberation #Democracy #Conflict #Pluralism Democracy often faces a dilemma: should it strive for consensus at…
The Fragile Art of Deliberation: Understanding Human Limits in Rational Decision-Making
Rational deliberation is costly and context-dependent, layered over intuition, emotions, and social cues. Good deliberation embraces divergent views and constructive dissent, but our lost practice of dialectics and rhetoric weakens this vital democratic skill. 🇬🇧 EN 🇫🇷 FR #CognitiveLimits #Deliberation #Democracy Rational deliberation—the careful weighing of options and arguments—is…
The Fragile Art of Deliberation: Human Limits in Rational Decision-Making
Human deliberative reasoning is a costly, context-dependent capacity — not a constant baseline. Studies reveal it’s layered on intuitive heuristics, emotions, and social cues, making sustained democratic reasoning fragile but not impossible. 🇬🇧 EN 🇫🇷 FR #CognitiveLimits #Deliberation #Psychology #Democracy @davevolek Rational deliberation — the ability to carefully weigh options, engage in…
How Collective Deliberation Enhances Group Decision-Making
The quality of group decisions depends on structured debate, sufficient time, and diverse participants. Well-designed deliberation turns argumentation into collective intelligence that boosts innovation. 🇬🇧 EN 🇫🇷 FR #Deliberation #CollectiveIntelligence #DecisionMaking #Collaboration Recent research shows that group idea selection does not result from simply adding up individual choices but from a structured…
Man guilty of attempting to assassinate Trump in Florida stabs himself with pen
A jury in a Fort Pierce federal courthouse has found Ryan Wesley Routh guilty on all five counts…
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"There is another variant of AI hype that runs in the opposite direction, to the effect that AI systems can radically enhance democracy by replacing democratic deliberation and decision-making by the citizenry as a whole. On this view, the AI system would amass the relevant preferences of all citizens and then identify the option that enjoys the greatest overall level of support.
This automated vision of democracy is deeply flawed on three grounds. Democracy is not about aggregating the preferences and values of citizens, but rather their considered judgments about the common good. Moreover, even if the AI system could identify these judgments, nothing ensures that they were formed through a process of deliberation, including informed debate among citizens situated as free and equal. Finally, democracy is not just a seminar-room discussion writ large, but a process of collective decision. This brings out the individual and collective agency, and corresponding accountability, that is an essential part of democratic decision-making.
Still, not everything to be said about the relationship between AI and democracy falls into the category of hype. I will now try to substantiate this hypothesis by advancing five propositions:"
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-classical-key-to-the-ai-revolution/
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