PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Paternalism
30 Oct 2017
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Plato: all professionals require training to become professionals, learn the rules of their jobs, treat any other profession like democracy treats the professional of political leadership. In so far as democracy suggests everyone ought to be in the profession of governing that government constitutes an attack on the profession of governing. The idea that we need some kind of especially trained and skilled political leader, who knows what we need, better than they we ourselves do - and who will rule us accordingly. Rousseau: real democratic governance requires that everybody participates. If not everyone participates its not an accurate demonstration and its only a small portion making the decision and therefore its not a democracy: there never has been a real democracy and there never will be. It is against the natural order for the many to govern and the few to be governed.
