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    Political deliberation, persuasion, and the plurality of ... — Carmelics
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    Political deliberation, persuasion, and the plurality of opinions are essential to political life.

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    • 1.Rational truth does not allow for debate and dissent, whereas well-grounded opinion thrives on debate and dissent.
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    • 2.Arendt's defense of opinion is a defense of political deliberation and the role of persuasion and dissuasion in matters affecting the political community.
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    • 3.A politics that acknowledges difference and the plurality of opinions is preferable to one that denigrates opinion.
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    • 1.Plato's epistemic argument holds that governance requires knowledge of the good, not mere aggregation of competing opinions.
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    • 2.When plural opinions lack grounding in truth, deliberation risks producing sophisticated rationalizations of injustice, as Socrates' trial demonstrates.
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    • 3.A politics structured around persuasion is vulnerable to demagoguery, making rhetorical skill rather than justice the arbiter of collective decisions.
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    • 1.Rousseau's general will theory holds that authentic collective self-governance emerges from citizens transcending partial opinions toward shared civic unity.
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    • 2.Arendt's celebration of plurality structurally prevents the formation of a common will, reducing politics to irresolvable contestation without binding authority.
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    The relationship between facts and opinions is thus one of mutual entailment: if opinions were not based on correct information and the free access to all relevant facts they could scarcely claim any validity. And if they were to be based on fantasy, self-deception, or deliberate falsehood, then no possibility of genuine debate and argumentation could be sustained. Both factual truth and the general habit of truth-telling are therefore basic to the formation of sound opinions and to the flourish
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