The democracy series was a large project, so I decided to collect all the links and post them here in a kind of index. The hope is to organize the entire series and allow easier discovery of the posts. I also posted the works cited here as a helpful resource.
A final thought. I hope the series has been helpful in coming to terms with what a democracy actually is and why America is no longer one. It has become fashionable in some circles to claim that there is an inherent extreme individualism in the Western definition of democracy that is to blame for the decline of democratic societies in the West. Although it is true that many such as Locke did emphasize a kind of individualism, an unbridled or unrestricted individualism was never part of the Western idea of democracy. This should be clear from reading the Greeks and Roman (primarily Stoic) presentations of consensual representation. When things go bad (and they certainly are today) often it is because the fundamentals have been forgotten or rejected.
The posts:
On Democracy, Part One can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Two can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Three can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Four can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Five can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Six can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Seven can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Eight can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Nine can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Ten can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Eleven can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Twelve can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Thirteen can be found here.
On Democracy, Part Fourteen can be found here.
Works cited:
Adler, Mortimer. Adler’s Philosophical Dictionary. New York: Scribner, 1995.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Great Books Of The Western World, Vol. 9, ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952.
— Politics, Great Books Of The Western World, Vol. 9, ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952.
Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes., Great Books Of The Western World, Vol. 5, ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952.
Goodwin, Gerald, Richard Current, Paula A. Franklin. A History of the United States. 2nd ed. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1985.
Herodotus, The History of Herodotus, Great Books Of The Western World, Vol. 6, ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952.
Homer. Iliad. Trans. by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
Hutchins, Robert. The Great Conversation: A Reader’s Guide to Great Books of the Western World. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1994.
Kagan, Donald. Pericles of Athens And The Birth of Democracy, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.
Lukacs, John. Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 11th ed.
Miller, Ed. Questions That Matter: An Invitation to Philosophy. 4th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1996.
Pascal, The Provincial Letters, Pensees, Scientific Treatises, Great Books Of The Western World, Vol. 33, ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952.
Plato, The Republic,tr. Francis MacDonald Cornford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1945.
“Stoicism.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD 5 July 2006.
The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Ed. Hammond, N.G. L. and H.H. Scullard. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Ed. by Hornblower, Simon and Anthony Spawforth. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Thucydides. The History of The Peloponnesian War, Great Books Of The Western World, Vol. 6, ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952.
Woodruff, Paul. First Democracy: The Challenge of An Ancient Idea. New York: Oxford University Press.
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