THE CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY

The Concept of Democracy

The Concept of Democracy

Introduction

Democracy means the original rule of the people to himself, but many so-called word of liberal democracy because it is the prevailing system of democracy in the countries of the West, as well as in the world in the century atheist century. Thus the use of the word "democracy" to describe liberal democracy confusion common in the use of the term both in the West or the East, democracy is a form of political governance based altogether on the peaceful transfer of power and majority rule, while liberalism emphasizes the protection of the rights of individuals and minorities.

Discussion and analysis

The evolution of the values ?of democracy in the middle Ages (Government Involvement)

The old democracies have grown in small towns with local religions or city, the state. Thus, the empires and major powers such as the Persian Empire and the Empire Romanian and the Chinese Empire and the Islamic Empire and the Mughal Empire in the Middle Ages and in most of the country, which included the first democracies would have spent on those mini-states of democracy , but the chances of doing well. However, this does not mean that the development towards democracy did not happen in the middle Ages, but most of this development happened at the level of values ??and rights of individuals.

"The government of the people by the people and for the people" Democracy is a typical current form of cohabitation of the common person in the world, which corresponds to the idea of equality between men and freedom of all to decide how to govern their own lives.

Political power begins at the beginning of humanity as such, people in the Stone Age due to meet in bands for greater protection. This result in a mutual respect and common among them, which later would centralize the early leaders the "big-man" who could be the best hunters and find out the strongest men, but had no power over others since they followed them willingly.

The problem of power arises later, when men realize that to impose on others managed to have more control over the rest and achieving some degree of worship, more fear than respect or their own abilities (higher those of others). Then we can get through this and thought the real origin of what is hate and fear in humans, which are still part of the power that some imposed on others (Freeman, 2008).

Democracy is generated in Greece, with Aristotle's thought, which clearly stated that the only form of government of that time corresponded to the "government of the people, by the people and for the people" but it would be good to specify that these "people" corresponded to only those who belong to the Aryan race of the Greeks. This had a real government and not representative, ie all who were decide together on "plebiscite".

Democracy and Its Consequences

The democratic all thoughts of man creates his own consequences, which in this ...