I would add that American philosopher John Dewey explored the requirements for successful democracy, the chief necessity being an informed electorate, which requires an adequate educational system for citizenship. A good place to start is Dewey's Democracy and Education.
This discussion began in the West in ancient Greece, where a fundamental question was,
"What does it mean to life a good life in a good society." It is one of the enduring questions of Western civilization as well as of other civilizations in forms suitable for those cultures
"What does it mean to life a good life in a good society." It is one of the enduring questions of Western civilization as well as of other civilizations in forms suitable for those cultures
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/07/04/information-anarchism/
See also
Sidney Hook's theory of education in a democracy
Daniel Little | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Chancellor for the University of Michigan-Dearborn 2000-2018
http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2022/07/sidney-hooks-theory-of-education-in.html
4 comments:
"What does it mean to life a good life in a good society."
1. War.
2. Artificial scarcity.
3. Competition i.e. everyone for themselves.
4. Selflessness towards society.
If you don't accept these enduring answers, pack your bags.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
—Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949
US actor & director (1915 - 1985)
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; —Romans 5:3 KJV
And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient, —Qur'an 2:155
“ This discussion began in the West in ancient Greece”
Failed methodology… Science Degree started to replace it in 1860…
Need to kick all those people out..,
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