Self-Limitation and Democracy
On the Ability of Society to Self-Regulate
[F]or the impulse of mere appetite is slavery, while obedience to a self-prescribed law is liberty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau[1]
The philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis has often been credited with saying that "democracy is the regime of self-limitation." [2] But since for him the only true democratic form is direct democracy, this claim might seem a bit ...
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