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Bibtex: @article{barber1996foundationalism,
          title={Foundationalism and democracy},
          author={Barber, B.R.},
          journal={Democracy and difference: contesting the boundaries of the political},
          pages={348--360},
          year={1996},
          publisher={Princeton University Press Princeton}
        }
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Foundationalism and Democracy

Benjamin Barber 1996

Foundationalist approaches to democracy tend to construct it around natural liberties and absolute rights. p348

If democracy is concerned with a form of knowledge, then it must have foundations in truths that are antecedent to it. p348

But democracy is not a cognitive system about what we can know, but rather a system of conduct to determine what we can will and do. p348

"Where ever there is truth or certain knowledge there need be no politics" p349