CONTENTS -- Editorial Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace? -- 1. Donald A. Wells -- 2. Ronald J. Glossop -- 3. Beth J. Singer -- 4. Mary Lenzi -- PART ONE: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse -- Introduction -- One: Semiotics of Meaninglessness: Cornel West's Explication of Inner-City Nihilism -- 1. Struggle to Understand Inner-City Gangs -- 2. Varieties of Nihilistic Experience -- Two: Moral Pessimism and the Ideals of Democracy -- 1. Moral Pessimists' Viewpoint -- 2. Moral Pessimism and the Legacy of Slavery -- 3. Governmental Action and Moral Pessimism -- 4. Hope Amidst Moral Pessimism -- 5. Overcoming the Societal Problem -- 6. Overcoming the Legacy of Slavery -- Three: South African Democracy, Multi-Culturalism, Rights, and Community -- 1. Liberalism and Communitarianism -- 2. South African Politics -- 3. Multi-Culturalism in South Africa -- 4. Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Multi-Culturalism -- Four: Exploring Problems of Democracy with Perspectives of Jürgen Habermas and Zen Buddhism -- 1. Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action -- 2. Psychoanalytic, Feminist, and Post-Modern Concerns -- 3. Exploring the Zen-Habermas Interplay -- Five: Hiroshima, Morality, and Democracy -- 1. Two Narratives -- 2. The Bombing and Its Consequences -- 3. Early Criticism-Moral Issues -- 4. Official Hiroshima Narrative -- 5. Challenging the Official Hiroshima Narrative: Enola Gay Script and Its Fate -- 6. Moral Issues Revisited -- 7. Hiroshima, Democratic Processes, and Democratic Values -- 8. Grounds for Hope -- PART TWO: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes -- Introduction -- Six: Democracy in Market Economies -- 1. Separation of Democratic Principles from the Economic Sphere -- 2. Extending Democracy to the Economic Sphere.

3. Actual Models and Practices of Economic Democracy -- 4. Economic Democracy and Justice -- Seven: Political Equality and the Independent Power of Private Property -- 1. Illustration -- 2. Main Issue -- 3. Equalities -- 4. General Analysis -- 5. Undermining Democratic Aims -- 6. Exercise of Property Rights Can Violate Political Equality -- 7. Political Equality, Power, and Deference -- 8. Actions of Capitalists as a Natural Force -- 9. Democratic Creation of the Market -- 10. Imposition of Unreasonable Demands -- 11. Natural Right to Property -- 12. Puzzle About Liberalism -- Eight: Rights and Affirmative Action -- 1. The Problem -- 2. Bakke and Equal Protection -- 3. Equal Protection and Rights -- 4. Reverse Discrimination -- 5. Implementation -- Nine: The Procedural Republic -- Ten: Living Democracy Despite the Rule of Law: Civil Disobedience as Political Narrative -- 1. Conscience and Revolution -- 2. Law -- PART THREE: Democracy and Routes to Peace -- Introduction -- Eleven: Unnecessary Suffering and Superfluous Injury -- Twelve: Exclusion of Soldiers from War-Making Decisions -- 1. Subjection of the Conscientious Objector -- 2. Rejecting Claims of Selective Objectors -- 3. Advocating Exemptions for Selective Objectors -- Thirteen: Recursive Metaphysics Is Bad for Democracy -- 1. Recursive Metaphysics -- 2. Distinction Between Secularism and Theocracy -- 3. Whence Comes Recursive Naturalism? -- 4. Al-Ghazali's and Kant's Critiques of Recursive Metaphysics -- 5. Recursivist Challenge to Democracy -- Fourteen: Toward a Reformulation of the Doctrine of Pacifism -- 1. Peace, Politics, and Morality -- 2. Pacifism and Act-Based Moral Theories -- 3. Virtue-Based Ethics as the Foundation for Pacifism -- 4. Pacifism and Democracy -- Fifteen: Gandhi and Dewey: Education for Peace -- 1. Philosophies of Education -- 2. Education and Peace.

3. Peace Education Initiatives Derivable from Gandhi and Dewey -- 4. Education for Peace at Elementary and Secondary Levels -- 5. Education for Peace in Colleges and Universities -- 6. Education, Peace, and Social Health -- Epilogue: Philosophy, Peace, and Problems for Democracy -- 1. Philosophy and Politics -- 2. Personalizing Politics -- 3. Punditocracy and Pop Culture -- Bibliography -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.