Reaching Disagreement
摘要
Political theory has been too focused on reaching “principled agreement,” even though politics is the art of disagreement. Disagreement turns out to rest on two kinds of agreement: (1) the agreement to attack opinions rather than opinionators; (2) the agreement to address the same issues as one’s opponents. Disagreement is a demanding moral ideal. Schools can promote better political rhetoric by teaching the art of argumentation as well as the art of storytelling.