Ici et ailleurs / Hysamedin Feraj (Ph.D.)

DEMOCRATS AND DEMAGOGUES

If Plato is “demagogue”, his pupil, Aristotle, could be seen as “democrat”. Two “philosophers” continue to quarrel on issue today, and yet it seems as it were between Greek “demos” and Latin “populus”. In the last century two inherently linked concepts - “democracy” and “populism” - are connotatively confronted as, due this connotation, they also denote two different things, and as the issue were about teaching the people or learning by the people. Beyond this connotation, however, differences vanish as (...)