Toward a Philosophy of Democracy

Abstract

HERE is a class of relationships that may be termed integrative. This class is made up of such relations as make possible the construction and maintenance of some sort of unity in multiplicity. It is a category of relationships that subsist among those objects that constitute unitary complexes, said objects being in the case of each complex united by the nexus that makes it a unique, individual fact. Integrative relationships are to be found whenever and wherever objects make up a configuration, or function as parts of an organic situation or whole. Of integrative relationships there are five kinds: the configurative, the consumptive, the instrumental, the compromise, and the co-ordinate. I