John Burnheim

John Burnheim

John Burnheim, former Professor of General Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.

In his book "Is Democracy Possible?" (1985) John Burnheim utilized the term "demarchy" (created by Friederich A.Von Hayek in his Law, Legislation and Liberty) to describe a political system without the state or bureaucracies, and based instead on randomly selected groups of decision makers. This has striking resemblances to classical democratic ideas, as reported by Thucydides. Burnheim used to be a Roman Catholic priest, and presided over St John's, the Catholic college attached to the University. He was a major figure in the disturbances of the 1970s that split the Sydney University Department of Philosophy.

References

J. Franklin, (2003), "Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia", Macleay Press, ch. 11

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