Re: Timocracy, Democracy etc. (was "torn: Response for Brad")

1999-12-04 Thread Christoph Reuss
Ed Goertzen quoted Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia (which keyword?): > "...If the mass of the population > governed and they were virtuous, it was called a timocracy. (The Greek > timios means "worthy.") But if the many were not virtuous, it was called a > democracy. The Greeks generally had a

Re: torn: Response for Brad

1999-12-04 Thread Ed Goertzen
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 18:44:06 -0500 "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Wrote Real democracy is peer participation in all the important areas of one's life. Representative democracy is an oxymoron, in which the only democracy is the democracy of the representatives (like in Athens: ther