 For the many, of whom each individual is but an ordinary person, when they meet together may very likely be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to which many contribute is better than a dinner provided...  Genetic Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives - Page 28edited by - 2007 - 148 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Forough Jahanbakhsh - 2001 - 201 pages
...For each individual among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together, they become in a manner one man, who has many feet, and hands, and senses; that is a figure of their mind and disposition.43 The underlying argument is based on two assumptions.... | |
 | Christopher Brown, Chris Brown, Terry Nardin, Nicholas Rengger - 2002 - 617 pages
...is not a good man, when they meet 1281bi together may be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...single purse. For each individual among the many has a S share of excellence and practical wisdom, and when they meet together, just as they become in a manner... | |
 | Robert Cooter - 2002 - 412 pages
...the citizens, like New England town meetings. Aristotle wrote that the many do better than the few "just as a feast to which many contribute is better than a dinner provided out of a single purse."4 2 To illustrate, until recently the city of Berkeley, California, had a council of nine members.... | |
 | Mogens Herman Hansen - 2005 - 75 pages
...soak the minority of rich (PI. Resp. 565A; Arist. Pol. 1304b20-4;1320a4-6). 25. Arist. Pol. 1281b3ff: "For each individual among the many has a share of...in a manner one man who has many feet and hands and senses, so too with regard to their character and thought. Hence the many are better judges than a... | |
 | Richard Kraut, Steven Skultety - 2005 - 256 pages
...individual is not a good man, when they meet together may be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...individual among the many has a share of excellence — 145 — and practical wisdom, and when they meet together, just as they become in a manner one... | |
 | P.L. Meurs, E.K. Schrijvers, G.H. de Vries - 2006 - 246 pages
...meet together may be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively. (. . .) For each individual among the many has a share of...manner one man, who has many feet, and hands, and senses, so too with regard to their character and thought. Hence the many are better judges than a... | |
 | Matthew Simpson - 2006 - 144 pages
...meet together may be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively . . . For each individual among the many has a share of excellence and practical wisdom'.7 The thesis is regularly demonstrated on television game-shows in which members of the audience... | |
 | Scott E. Page - 2007 - 424 pages
...argument," what Jeremy Waldron more sublimely refers to as "the doctrine of the wisdom of the multitude,"5 For each individual among the many has a share of...manner one man, who has many feet, and hands, and senses, so too with regard to their character and thought. Hence the many are better judges than a... | |
 | David Estlund - 2009 - 312 pages
...ordinary person, when they meet together may very likely be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...For each individual among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together, they become in a manner one man, who has many feet,... | |
 | J. Thomas Wren - 2007 - 404 pages
...because 'each individual among the many has a share of virtue and prudence, and when they meet together, they become in a manner one man, who has many feet, and hands, and senses. . . . Hence,' he concluded, 'the many are better judges than a single man.'12 This additive... | |
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