Understanding Democracy

Democracy comes from the ancient Greek meaning that demos meaning people and kratos government. Etymologically, democracy is derived from the word implies that people's demos and cratos or cratein which means government or power. In terms of terminology and conceptual democracy has several meanings: government by the people, who carried out either directly or through elected representatives; a political or social unit that has the authority...

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Classical Political Era

Politics begins at the time of the ancient Greeks more emphasis on the notion that the discussion focused on the country. The thinkers of this period was Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Socrates introduced the term theoria is defined as knowledge at that time. According to the state's duty is to educate citizens with the principle of giving happiness to every community and make their lives as good as possible. Plato had the concept of the ideal state...

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THEORIES POLITIC

Socrates (in Ramlan Surbakti, 2007: 25) defines democracy as a regime led by the people who rely solely on the desire of freedom or unnecessary (unnecessary desire). Socrates in this case has been considered that the concept of democracy is the rule that contains the policy on the basis of freedom and desire that is not important. Plato (in F. Isjwara, SH, 1992: 185) classifies about the form of government are as follows: the best form of government...

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