| Description |
This course will introduce students to the principal historical figures in thinking about democracy: Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Schumpeter and others. But the rationale of the course is philosophical rather than historical. Let democracy require that government be of the people, by the people and for the people: that the people be the ultimate governing authority, that they be the agents by whom government is conducted, and that they be the beneficiaries in whose interest government is exercised. The aim of the course will be to see whether there is a plausible and appealing sense in which those conditions can be fulfilled. |