Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jkksz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T13:57:51.654Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Are we good enough for democracy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Jonathan Wolff

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Is democracy a good thing? Most of us think so. And yet, as Jonathan Wolff here explains, Plato thought democracy was a very bad idea. If you favour democracy (and I'm guessing you do), then your challenge is to explain what, if anything, is wrong with Plato's argument. So can you?

Type
Research Article
Information
Think , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Autumn 2002 , pp. 29 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2002

References

Notes

1 Barry, Brian, ‘The Public Interest’, in Quinton, A. (ed.) Political Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 122.Google Scholar