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Democracy and its Diminishing Marginal Utility
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that people in the democratic age
‘have an ardent, insatiable, eternal, invincible passion’ for equality. They will ‘tolerate poverty, enslavement, barbarism, but they will not tolerate aristocracy’. It is indisputable that the value we give democracy, or ‘rule of
the people is rooted in the allure of the ballot box its promise of freedom and equality for all, and its method of ascertaining whatever we mean by the ‘common good’.
But, is democracy an end in itself? When, if ever, does it fail to deliver on its promise of universal autonomy and liberation? Is there such a thing as too much democracy?
This episode consists of an essay I wrote for the John Locke Essay Competition entitled, 'Is there such a thing as too much democracy?'
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By Antara RaoAlexis de Tocqueville wrote that people in the democratic age
‘have an ardent, insatiable, eternal, invincible passion’ for equality. They will ‘tolerate poverty, enslavement, barbarism, but they will not tolerate aristocracy’. It is indisputable that the value we give democracy, or ‘rule of
the people is rooted in the allure of the ballot box its promise of freedom and equality for all, and its method of ascertaining whatever we mean by the ‘common good’.
But, is democracy an end in itself? When, if ever, does it fail to deliver on its promise of universal autonomy and liberation? Is there such a thing as too much democracy?
This episode consists of an essay I wrote for the John Locke Essay Competition entitled, 'Is there such a thing as too much democracy?'