{"id":6600,"date":"2016-10-19T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2016-10-19T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:24:26","slug":"edward-kanterian-on-the-worst-form-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/10\/19\/edward-kanterian-on-the-worst-form-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Kanterian on &#8216;The Worst Form of Government&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A podcast featuring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/kanterian.html\">Dr Edward Kanterian<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/index.html\">Department of Philosophy<\/a>, passionately defending the values of freedom and democracy in\u00a0a debate entitled \u2018The Worst Form of Government\u2019, is now available on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/theforum\/\">The Forum for European Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0at the London School of Economics (LSE) website.<\/p>\n<p>The original debate was held at LSE\u00a0on Wednesday 5 October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill famously described democracy as \u2018the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried\u2019. While not exactly a resounding endorsement, something like this sentiment is strongly held by most people in Western societies. Those who challenge it are branded \u2018extremists\u2019 or \u2018ideologues\u2019, with special suspicion reserved for those who incorporate unfamiliar cultural or religious beliefs. However, there have always been those who think alternatives to democracy are possible, and indeed preferable. So what are the philosophical arguments in favour of democracy, and do they stand up to scrutiny?<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the podcast, please visit the page:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/theforum\/the-worst-form-of-government\/\">http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/theforum\/the-worst-form-of-government\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A podcast featuring\u00a0Dr Edward Kanterian, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, passionately defending the values of freedom and democracy in\u00a0a debate entitled \u2018The Worst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/10\/19\/edward-kanterian-on-the-worst-form-of-government\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":6609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135860,124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6615,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions\/6615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}