Contents
Prefatory Note for the 1990 Edition
Acknowledgments
Part One: Democracy as an Ethico-Philosophical Preblem
I. Democracy and Man's Moral Predicament
II. Human Experience and the "Scientific Method"
Part Two: The Ethical Life
III. The Duality of Human Nature
IV. The Ethics of Community
Part Three: Rousseau's General Will: Moral Fact or Utopian Fiction?
V. The Political Moralism of Rousseau
VI. The Rebirth of Nature
VII. The General Will
VIII. Utopian Dreams and Harsh Realities
Part Four: The Ethics of Constitutiona Democracy
IX. Constitutionalism and Popular Sovereignty
X. The Spirit of Constitutionalism
XI. Constitutionalism versus Plebiscitarianism
XII. Democracy, Leadership and Culture
Part Five: A Postscript
XIII. The Common Good and History
XIV. The State of Democracy
Index