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Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the rest. So if democracy is the least worst, how can it be improved?
I don't know about the how good/bad democracy (relatively/absolutely), but what we practice as democracy today is to my reckoning obsolete. With a cell phone in every citizen's hands and the worldwide ...
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Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the rest. So if democracy is the least worst, how can it be improved?
To improve democracy you must engage and educate the participants of the democratic state in question. The biggest challenge of any society larger than what humans have a natural capacity to manage, ...
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Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the rest. So if democracy is the least worst, how can it be improved?
Lots of great answers and suggestions. Let me add Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies. Consistent with his trial-and-error approach to science, he argues that the main advantage of democracy is ...
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Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the rest. So if democracy is the least worst, how can it be improved?
There have been a number of philosophers of the past starting most famously from Plato who strongly criticised democracy, Aristotle was more measured but still classified democracy amongst the deviant/...
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Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the rest. So if democracy is the least worst, how can it be improved?
I paraphrase Churchill, but this version communicates his fundamental meaning. Democracy is flawed. So how can we improve it to achieve a more perfect republic? We would have to agree some ground ...
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Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the rest. So if democracy is the least worst, how can it be improved?
Your question starts with a presupposition: “if democracy is the
least worst … “.
Hence to agree with or to object to this presupposition already
requires a measure how to assess any form of political ...
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It is best humans don't destroy each other, because then there is less humanity to them: what might be the missing assumption?
What is missing is an account how humanity implies necessary and substantive fellow feeling.
John Donne in the 17th Meditation On Emergent Occasions writes the entire thought out thusly:
No man is ...
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