Who should decide what counts as democratic, and how? This series argues that such a challenge raises an ethical, a practical, and a philosophical difficulty. Leonardo Fiorespino questions the ethical issue and suggests that the practical and philosophical problems require ad hoc solutions
Leonardo Fiorespino finds Jean-Paul Gagnon’s proposed lexicon of democracy wanting in its base assumptions around knowledge and arbitrariness. Moreover, he wonders, can we really trust 'democracy's words'?
He currently teaches moral and political philosophy at the University of New York in Prague.
Leonardo's research focuses on contemporary democratic theory, populism, conceptions of and issues with the concept of ‘people’, and normativity in political philosophy.
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