Abstract
Democratic theorists assume that "men as they are" can be citizens, but harbor doubts about their capacity for self-rule. "Democratic faith" relieves this tension with a vision of a redeemed politics in which men have become "what they ought to be" to make democracy work. By a sleight of hand, democratic faith authorizes an idealist project to actualize the democratic condition which ostensibly needs no foundation other than ordinary virtue. Despite his reputation to the contrary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a democratic realist who accepts human imperfection and eschews any ultimate solution to the human problem.
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