Political Thinkers by David Muschamp M.A. (eds.)

By David Muschamp M.A. (eds.)

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What is more, they cannot do otherwise; since without that assumption there is no discussion: only rhetoric and professions of faith. When it comes to complex issues - for example, abortion or nuclear warfare - the added assumption is made that, in order to arrive at answers, ability and expertise are required; straight-off intuition and native wit are not enough. Men and women need to be informed, but also they need to be educated in analyzing problems, in seeing ramifications, in grasping principles and in assessing consequences.

In discussing the virtues of democracy in relation to Plato, we need to distinguish two sets of arguments: those supporting democracy in the absence of Platonic philosophers, and those supporting it absolutely - whether such philosophers are to be had or not. There are many good though disputed reasons for concluding that Western, constitutional and representative democracies are, in the absence of Platonic philosophers, the best political societies devised so far; and Plato himself could have allowed this, accepting that they come closer than others to securing the well-being of their wholes.

Aristotle gave a partial answer to this by his claim that were security all that is important then wherever there are protective alliances, either between states, or among villages or tribes, there would thus be a state. But, he said, these are not states. States, rather, form their subjects in various ways. , people who now have and can use fully human capacities. Indeed, were they only to provide the goods and services of the smaller groupings, and not also to create such people, states would lack their special philosophical interest and importance.

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