by admin | March 12, 2024 12:53 pm
Democracy means ‘rule by the people’. In Greek, ‘demos’ is defined as ‘people’, and ‘Kratos’, ‘rule’. Yet in the world that we live in, it is a far cry from the root meaning of the word itself. Many of the countries that are constitutionally considered democratic have a selective version of democracy that best suits those in power. John Dewey (1859–1952), an American philosopher, associated with pragmatism, in his political philosophy, speaks about democracy as a means to help citizens to the ‘full realisation of their potentialities’; yet it would seem that in many democracies in Asia, these potentialities seem to benefit only a few.
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