Like freedom, democracy is very relevant to what is happening in the world now. The following video from Philosophy Tube discusses the many questions about democracy:
The article on "Democracy" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides useful material on the topic.
Some questions are:
- What is democracy?
- What are the characteristics of a democracy?
- How is democracy a good thing?
- Can leaders be trained? Who decides the curriculum?
- What qualities should leaders of democracies have?
- How do we get good leaders rather than people who are just good at winning elections?
- Who can vote? Should criminals and billionaires be excluded?
- Should there be compulsory voting?
- Are values of votes the same? If not, is it fair that a high value vote is worth the same as a low one?
- Many organisations, like the armed forces and corporations, are not democratic; why do we accept these non-democratic organisations?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of democracies?
- How and why do democracies fail?
- What can we do to improve our democracy?
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