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
| Anthony Gottlieb - 2000 - 490 pages
...could be that the people 'when they meet together may be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to...better than a dinner provided out of a single purse'. The citizens might march over a precipice (albeit in step) which they might have been able to avoid... | |
| Gregory Michael Sifakis - 2001 - 216 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...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 of music... | |
| Forough Jahanbakhsh - 2001 - 222 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.... | |
| Chris Brown, Terry Nardin, Nicholas Rengger - 2002 - 634 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 - 440 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 - 84 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 - 278 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 - 247 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 - 138 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 - 460 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... | |
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