Power to the People According to the 2002 Britannica Encyclopedia; "Democracy is a philosophy of government in which supreme power is invested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free elections." However, the meaning of a word is not a "transparent" representation for a definition. ... What one chooses as a definition of democracy can cause a discrepancy for another with a conflicting point of view. The Greek philosopher Aristotle ( 384-322 B.C.) was the first to define democra...

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A just dictatorship may sound ludicrous simply by its mere definition, yet Plato went as far as promoting it as a model for a perfectly harmonized society. His idea that philosophy was the path to a sort of "nirvana", where the best of things are always looking to be perfected, may seem ridiculous. ...

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Politics it self strived to find idealistic methods of politics and philosophy in the history and so now we are living in the capitalism and democracy society. ... These global politics events substantiate the sentence "Politics is pragmatic occupation with little room for ideals, ideas and philosophy."" ... Politics holds economy of certain country and to be profitable position among the trade with other countries, policy of government must be practical rather than searching for their ideology or philosophy in it. ... Government cannot maintain these broad situation and issues with one ide...

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The heated debate of democracy includes the differing views concerning the definition of democracy, controversy over the suitable form of democracy since there are different forms, lack of relevant cases where total democracy was implemented and there are questions on who sets down the agreed levels and standards of democracy as the yardstick which takes precedence over other forms of regimes. ... There is no general accepted definition for democracy and it is a contentious subject which is open to debate and it has faced much criticism from different theorists in which case Plato is one of th...

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The concept of democracy continued to be prevalent in Europe with the philosophies of an English philosopher by the name of John Locke and a French philosopher named Jean Jacques Rousseau. ... There are various interpretations of this definition and consequently many models of democracy. ...

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