{"id":463,"date":"2010-12-03T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=463"},"modified":"2013-08-28T19:52:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:52:39","slug":"analects-of-the-core-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/12\/03\/analects-of-the-core-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Aristotle on democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the debate on democracy being presented in CC101, consider this point made by Aristotle in <em>Politics<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there any way this can be critiqued? \u00a0Offer your opinions on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/group.php?gid=46453444979\">EnCore Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of the debate on democracy being presented in CC101, consider this point made by Aristotle in Politics: In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. Is there any way this can be critiqued? \u00a0Offer your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[3692,3719,3689,4332,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}