4. Answer the following questions in 10 to 20 words.
a) What is democracy?
b) What is political equality?
c) What do you understand by human dignity?
Answers
a. a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
b. Political egalitarianism is where members of a society are of equal standing in terms of political power or influence. ... Equal citizenship constitute the core of political egalitarianism
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Answer:
a)Democracy, which derives from the Greek word demos, or people, is defined, basi- cally, as government in which the supreme power is vested in the people. In some forms, democracy can be exercised directly by the people; in large societies, it is by the people through their elected agents.
b)Political egalitarianism is where members of a society are of equal standing in terms of political power or influence. A founding principle of various forms of democracy, political egalitarianism was an idea which was supported by Thomas Jefferson and it is a concept similar to moral reciprocity and legal equality .
c)The English word dignity comes from the Latin word, dignitas, which means “worthiness.” Dignity implies that each person is worthy of honor and respect for who they are, not just for what they can do. In other words, human dignity cannot be earned and cannot be taken away.