Democracy Debate
Yann Allard-Tremblay vs John Skorupski
In the words of Yann:
Do rights bind democracy or do we decide democratically
which rights there are? Is democracy the appropriate decision-making
procedure only within the boundaries of a theory of justice or as long
as it respects a predefined set of rights? Or has democracy priority
over questions of justice and of rights? Ultimately, this binds into
the question of what political philosophy is about: a realist
conception of legitimacy or a moralised conception of legitimacy.
I will be defending the primacy of democracy while John Skorupski will
be defending the opposite view - or his own take on the problem.