Democracy as Daemonion: The Resurrection of Polemos or Death of Demos

Abstract

Etymologically based on approximately two thousand five hundred years ago the concept of democracy that which today celebrating its triumph of realizing its own possibilities but at the same time the probability of its collapse is also prepared. This collapse is rooted in its wrong or failed relationships are established with its origin. Plato, as the father of philosophical tradition, associated beauty of democracy with its difficulty for sustainability and then, discussed that by transferring it to the freedom of
dialogue. But on the other hand, the danger that he sees in the beauty of democracy is a greedy desire for freedom. The
collapse is hidden in the collective soul of humanity sank into the depths of hard shots of freedom and their loss of dialogue. If we say with Heidegger’s reviews Nietzsche, as an end of metaphysical tradition and at the same time as the last metaphysician, Nietzsche tells in a manner similar that brutality of extreme passions that makes brilliant beginning of democracy. On the one hand, both thinkers have emphasized this extreme desire for freedom is a misconception; on the other hand, it has not yet a combination or collective self-intrinsic unity of spirit or ethos as it stems from. In the modern world this danger lurking in the dynamics of democracy appears as a schizoid coverage of individual and as in the commodification of the freedom itself. If we make this clearer, the modern world's most extreme form of capitalism’s optionlessness syndrome, creating a kind of freedom by individualization as satisfying it in the selfish desires and wishes and then freedom’s ways as dialogue, action, solidarity and
struggle are closed. Freedom ones given here is nothing more than a choice between given things. Even dreams consist of a desire that reach saturation by gracing commodities. This is just the democracy as lost its demos. So now what will define democracy appropriately?

Democracy in the source of this power is now polemos not demos. Today, in our streets, squares or no matter wherever in, for example, the vast depths of the mine, it was cold in Soma unfair and cruel deaths is a real indicative of the death of demos. Therefore, it is not simply a question of power, or the public; it is a truth problem. It’s closed and turned itself back on the meaning of this truth as polemos but not a sign roughly the war rather that it signs in Heracletian sense as awakening, uprising, and called to struggle in the poetic sense. This is essential here, is responding to calls of spiritual power that in the source of
demos by putting its tyranny and majority aside. This spiritual power called us as daemonion. Democracy should wake the power that concealed in its source and should return itself by the mystery of this awakening. It should be rescued from this collapse and the aporias of this collapse by a new power. This paper suggests that returning from the failure of democracy in both metaphysical tradition and its result as our technological world that where it simply means demos, to its true and appropriate openness that rooted in the dynamic and vital unity of praxis and poiesis. This suggestion will be based by feeding the thoughts of the cornerstones of tradition as Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger.