[Winona Online Democracy]
Title: Democracy on 4th of July
Hello... You received my message on Paul Woodruff's
talk on Reverence, and I recognized quite a few WOD folks in audience
yesterday .
At the end of his comments he shared some on the 7 features of
Athenian Democracy over 2000 years ago. My rough notes list them
as:
1. freedom from
tyranny
2. Rule of
law
3.
equality
4. Ordinary
citizen knows enough to participate
5. Reasoning
without certain knowledge:trusting in debate and
discussion
6. Non
specialized education for citizenship
7. Harmony,
unity. Working together
These will be
main chapters in his forthcoming book First Democracy: Facing
the Original Ideas.
This might be an
interesting discussion in looking at our democracy.
He also
mentioned a Swedish project on Democracy - Here's a
link
http://www.idea.int/ideas_work/14_political_state.htm
There's an
asessment there to look at the functioning of a
democracy.
Finally, today
on the Public Radio Program - Speaking of Faith--archived
at
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/
there is a
terrific interview with Jacob Needleman on the spiritual roots
of our American Democracy.
I'd welcome your
reflections on Democracy and how it plays out-- especially at a
local level and what is or could be the role of Winona Online
Democracy... Happy 4th!!
Randy
Schenkat
--
Randy Schenkat 1358 Skyline Dr. Winona, Mn
55987 507-452-7168
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