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THE STRUCTURE OF DELIBERATIVE PROCESS. AN ETHICAL ATTEMPT

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The purpose of this paper is to highlight the structure of a deliberative process starting from a normative explanation, first individually (Rawls) and then extended to the concept of deliberative politics reflected in social institutions and understood as an “ideal case” of making the decision within the group. On the other hand I will try to outline the extent in which that such differences/complementarities can be noticed, the scope of the concept of deliberative democracy of that of the concept of democracy discourse in two stages: in the first instance I will consider how Habermas filters the result of deliberative action through the discourse theory (here at least two types of elements are important: communicative action, discourse principle as a principle of globalization based on a reasoning technique). In fact one can see that there is a conversion of the deliberative process with one with a dual purpose discursive structure: as deliberations to acquire a legitimizing force and subsequently to be socially integrated as citizens expect that the deliberation results to have a reasonable quality – the result of a decision process, the deliberative model provides an invariably true and balanced solution. The second stage brings into question the instrumental rationality critique (according to Dryzek, the instrumental rationality can be defined as the ability to design, select and execute through the best methods the clarified purposes). This type of criticism, primarily highlights a number of accents considered antidemocratic by Dryzek, noticed in political practice, political institutions or even in the individual actions arising from the official use of the instrumental rationality as effective instrumental action, and on the second hand, it determines all the elements of a new paradigm, based on communicative rationality, that of the discursive democracy.

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... Irrespective of whether it is spontaneous or, on the contrary, the decider needed time, careful analysis, debates with others, the decision made at the individual level affects the course of the events that the decider participates in as well as of others. Consequently, the need for ethical assessment is permanent because at the social level, due to democratic structures, decisions on action follow (or at least they should) deliberative structures (Pricop, 2014) in which participants should have the possibility to express their opinion particularly because decisions affect them. In this case, also, the need for ethical assessment is felt at the action option level. ...
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Through deliberative communication we may understand a particular type of communication, performed in the public-democrat space, which implies participation from more people/individuals for the communication act on a certain theme on which polarizations appear, divergent interests, dilemmas, conflicts. The goal of deliberative communication is to make the participants to reach a consensus /a compromise in the process of taking a decision of action. The macro-context of communication comes from the liberties and constraints imposed by the society and state and as a condition of possibility of any type of democracy, the implication of civil society in the process of taking a decision through public deliberations and as a direct consequence, the acceptance of different value systems, equal rights for all the participants in the act of taking a decision, liberty of expression, respecting all human rights. At the strict level of communication, respecting every norm of communication by avoiding ill-minded/manipulative arguments. The elements which define a solution with the intent to be put in practice and the particularization of such a communication in the deliberative process may be reduced to two categories: rational communication and the idea over common good. The purpose of this paper is to reconfigure the structure of the deliberative process, inspired by the classic utilitarianism principles with the intention to prefigure a possible conciliation between the liberty of action and liberty of opinion as long as every individual has the liberty to take action following their own way to obtain their own good, a liberty limited by the interest of others which follow as well their own good.
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