DISTINGUISHED HISTORICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE EVENT DEMOCRACY FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT TIME

Abstract

This reflection aims to point out the lines of force and metamorphoses of the democracy event over time. Concomitantely, from the intersection of the various positions of some philosopher thinkers duly selected and that can be taken as those who, unequivocally, when dedicating themselves to the study and analysis of democracy demonstrated a certain innovation in relation to its meaning and experience, reflection, helping them, presents the pillars of democracy and adequate articulation of the prerogatives that it has raised in the various historical epochs. Moreover, implicitly, the reflection denotes that there is and has never been consensus around the democracy event, but rather meritorious approximations. It is an event open to debate because with the passage of time and as it adopts various aspects, the result of the metamorphoses that it is going through, and with a view to its (re)affirmation and consequent validation presents itself as an open field for possible understandings, that is, it opens space for alternative democracies that should be understood as its middle ground today. Moreover, the new democratic construct without losing the essence of democracy must be in favor of the adoption of different forms of citizen participation, freedom in thinking, decision and opinion, tolerance and search for consensus, equity, social justice, sharing of all kinds of resources and goods with a view to fewer conflicts, less violence, in short fewer wars and more harmony and peace.

KEYWORDS: Democracy, Philosophy, History, Representations.