Far from pushing students towards either pole, the debate constituted a space for encouraging students to link critical, interpretive, and genealogic analysis.
They argue that public debate constitutes one of the main avenues by which citizens can participate in collective decision making.
Truth "peremptorily claims to be acknowledged and precludes debate," Hannah Arendt pointed out in this magazine, in 1967, "and debate constitutes the very essence of political life".
Since the debate constitutes one of this book's big dramatic moments and is so hastily introduced, it's not surprising to find smaller plot points being treated in equally haphazard ways.
Truth "peremptorily claims to be acknowledged and precludes debate," Hannah Arendt pointed out in this magazine, in 1967, "and debate constitutes the very essence of political life". Estlund wasn't a relativist, however; he agreed that politicians should refrain from appealing to absolute truth, but he didn't think a political theorist could avoid doing so.
As Arendt writes, "The trouble is that factual truth, like all other truth, peremptorily claims to be acknowledged and precludes debate, and debate constitutes the very essence of political life.
JIM LEHRER, first presidential debate, 3 October: For Lehrer this debate constitutes a victory lap.
The online debate constitutes one more example of the growing importance of social media in an autocratic country with the world's largest proportion of Internet users.
On an issue that is this critical to public safety and the overall success of the sex offender treatment program, this failure of adequate vetting and thorough debate constitutes a fatal flaw with the bill.
In the early 2000s, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission debated what constituted a binding agreement arrived at during a videoconference, while the United Nations used videoconferencing to help remote witnesses to testify safely during Rwanda's genocide trials, called the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
