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laodan discovered 8 months ago- Confronting the Ancient to the Modern View of democracy via 3QD / Morgan Meis, in OVI Magazine by Emanuel L. Paparella
Were we to seriously survey the history of mankind we would soon find out that humanity has had as their leaders precious few philosopher-kings and an abundance of Caesars and Napoleons, people who in general are in love with Machiavellian "power politik" which they practice rationally on the chess-board of life while being completely uninterested in philosophy. At this point one may ask: is Plato's critique still valid today, and if so, what are the practical consequences of ignoring it? Let us try to apply this critique to an overarching problem of modern Western Civilization, namely the principle of sustainable development. ... in a free market there is no normative standard of what constitutes a need and what constitutes a want. The only standard is one's desires, as Madison Avenue well knows and as Plato intimated when he said that poverty is not measured by how little one possesses but by how big are one's desires. ... when one has trust and faith in the innate wisdom of the people, then democracy begins to appear as the only possible solution to the problems of all the people. Confronting the Ancient to the Modern View of democracy What's proposed here is to trust a mechanism that theoretically possibly works on the long haul at the image of the free market. But this mechanism is fraught with ideological assumptions that are far apart from reality. We are confronted today with urgency. Necessity is pouring on us from all quarters and the solutions to those necessities can't wait for the people's "ccommon sense" to realize that there is a real problem out there. This proposition of waiting for that so called "common sense" to realize that there is a problem ignores the necessity and the urgency that lay at the heart of each of modernity's side-effects that are erupting in late-modernity. The thesis of this article is grounded in an abstract logic that ignores the necessity of reality. This is called ideology.
- Confronting the Ancient to the Modern View of democracy via 3QD / Morgan Meis, in OVI Magazine by Emanuel L. Paparella
