In this small essay, I will concentrate on the notion of democracy as a universal value according to two authors, Amartya Sen in one of his major works headed "The democracy of the others" and David Graeber in his book headed "Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire" .
The first author, A. Sen, Indian economist, humanist and philosopher, he's been teaching philosophy and economy at Harvard University, Nobel Prize of economy in 1998 for his studies in the starvation, the justice and the human development theory, as the second intellectual, D. Graeber (born 12 February, 1961) is an American anthropologist and anarchist who is reader in social anthropology at goldsmiths, university of London. He was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, and he's a member of the labor union industrial workers of the world.
Democracy it was always a pejorative term since the time Athenian, according to Platoon, it is the reign of disturbance because there are seven title to govern, three of birth and four of nature, but there maybe people who have no character of birth or nature, that's what makes the superiority of the majority over the minority, thereafter it will dissent occurs, this conception continued until 1820 where it became something of ideal democratic who had been hijacked by the state.
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