Vol 10, No 1, 2011 pp. 21-30
UDC 321.74 : 165

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DEMOCRACY AND "POVERTY" (A POSSIBLE APPROACH FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HEURISTICS)
Srboljub S. Dimitrijević
University of Niš, Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia
Email: vidan@filfak.ni.ac.rs

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This text would like to open the question of the relationship between democracy and poverty. Not in the sense of poverty as the lack of material wealth, but in the sense of the lack of wealth of knowledge. The intention is to question of the amount and type of knowledge which is linked to people from democratically organized societies. Is in today’s world the democratic principle something that causes the progress of individuals in terms of the acquisition of knowledge or is the situation completely different? In the development of the thesis on the relationship between democracy and heuristics we first start with Aristotle’s understanding of democracy and human virtue, with his study of the types of government and the position of the democratic way of organizing society.
Key words: democracy, poverty, knowledge, virtue, religion, theism, atheism.

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DEMOKRATIJA I "SIROMAŠTVO" (JEDAN MOGUĆI PRISTUP IZ PRAVCA SAZNANJA) Ovim tekstom se želi da se otvori pitanje o odnosu demokratije i siromaštva. I to ne u smislu siromaštva kao oskudice u materijalnom bogatstvu, već u smislu bogatstva znanja. Namera je preispitivanje količine i vrste znanja koje se vezuje uz ljude demokratskog uređenja države. Da li je danšnji svetski demokratski princip nešto što uzrokuje napredovanje ljudi u znanju ili je to jedna drugačija situacija? U razvijanju teze o odnosu demokratije i saznanja započinje se Aristotelovim razumevanjem demokratije i ljudskih vrlina. Njegovim razmatranjem vrsta državne vladavine i pozicija samog demokratskog načina organizacije.
Ključne reči: demokratija, siromaštvo, znanje, vrlina, religija, teizam, ateizam