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The understanding of democracy in the thought of Charles Taylor

2021· dissertation· pt· W7119326341 on OpenAlex
Cleison Daniel Costa

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueLA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2021
Typedissertation
Languagept
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLatin American social science
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDemocracyLiberalismComprehensionInterpretation (philosophy)HegemonyPluralism (philosophy)NaturalismFraming (construction)Politics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The main aim of this work is to present the notion of democracy in the thought of the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor. To do so, we start from the author’s critique of what we call liberal ‘atomist-procedural’ model of comprehension of democracy and we try to articulate an alternative model of comprehension that we call ‘liberal-republican’, which is considered by the philosopher as more receptive to freedom, pluralism and to the promotion of the common good. With this goal in mind, we first present Taylor’s analysis of the atomist anthropology that, so he understands, underlies most of hegemonic liberal theories in the West, an anthropology that the author links in its origins to the modern epistemological tradition at the base of a naturalistic perspective of science. To these atomist images of the human being and naturalistic of science, the philosopher opposes a conception of human agents as self-interpreting language animals that are situated in their time and relationships, as well as a comprehension of the social-political theory as a modality of self-understanding of the collective identity that focuses, essentially, on what is meaningful (conceptions of the good) to these agents. After this propaedeutic task, we dedicate ourselves to properly present Taylor’s interpretation of the ‘atomist-procedural’ liberalism and its weaknesses, as well as his comprehension of a different form of conceiving the democratic sociability that emerges from the author’s combination of variants of the theoretical languages of liberalism and republicanism. Having met this main objective, we propose as a closing point, to analyze elements of Brazilian political culture in dialogue with Taylor’s comprehension of democracy and of the political in general in order to clarify, to some extent, the democratic and undemocratic aspects of this culture. For this second task, we draw on interpreters of Brazilian social reality from different fields.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.908
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.004
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0030.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.299
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it