The Theory of Democracy Revisted - Part Two

Part 2 The classical issues: what is democracy? definition, proof, and preference - are definitions arbitrary?, a criticism of conventionalism, words as experience carriers, the search for proof, a comparative evaluation; Greek democracy and modern democracy - homonymy, not homology, direct or polis democracy, individualism and freedom, old and new, the modern idea and ideal, a reversal of perspective; liberty and law - freedom and freedoms, political freedom, liberal freedom, the supremacy of law in Rousseau, autonomy - a criticism, the principle of diminishing consequences, from the rule of law to the rule of legislators; equality - a protest ideal, justice and sameness, predemocratic and democratic equalities, equal opportunities and equal circumstances, egalitarian criteria, treatments and outcomes, the maximization of equality, liberty and equality; liberism, liberalism, and democracy - overlaps, an unfortunate timing, property and possessive individualism, liberalism defined, liberal democracy, democracy within liberalism, democracy without liberalism; market, capitalism, planning, and technocracy - what is planning?, what is the market?, capitalism, individualism, collectivism, market socialism, democratic planning, democracy, power, and incompetence, the role of the expert, the government of science; another democracy? - the good society of Rousseau and Marx, democracy and the state in Marx and Lenin, popular democracy, the theory of democratic dictatorship, democracy and demophily, the war of words; the poverty of ideology - the exhaustion of ideals, inevitables and evitables, the witch-hunting of ideas, novitism and beyondism, epilogue.