民主与热情：托克维尔与泰勒民主理论的对照阅读.DOCVIP

托克維爾論 中文摘要 多數暴政一詞在民主社會中經常受到誤用與濫用，本文希望回到思想史的脈絡中，透過這個觀念最早的提出者之一托克維爾的著作重新省思多數暴政一詞的意義。筆者將論證對托克維爾而言，多數統治是民主社會正當性的基本規則，是社會身份平等這一新的政治社會條件下無可避免的決策方式，但多數暴政則產生於個人對於多數公眾意見不假思索的順服、盲從與依賴，而製造出一個擁有高於一切其他權力，並規範道德秩序的思想專制Abstract In modern democratic societies, “tyranny of majority” is a commonly used yet commonly misused phrase. The purpose of this essay is therefore to return to the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the early political theorists who elaborated the phrase, to clarify what “tyranny of majority” originally means. To Tocqueville, whereas the majority rule is the inevitable decision rule in