{"id":5198,"date":"2017-09-28T05:16:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/giles-fraser-on-a-c-grayling-on-voting\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T05:16:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:16:37","slug":"giles-fraser-on-a-c-grayling-on-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/giles-fraser-on-a-c-grayling-on-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Giles Fraser on A. C. Grayling on Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>, with a tip of the hat to Karl White:<\/span><\/p>\n

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John Stuart Mill<\/a> was another philosopher who believed something similar. In 1859 he published his Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform<\/a>, in which he proposed a voting system heavily weighted towards the better educated. \u201cIf every ordinary unskilled labourer had one vote \u2026 a member of any profession requiring a long, accurate and systematic mental cultivation \u2013 a lawyer, a physician or surgeon, a clergyman of any denomination, a literary man, an artist, a public functionary \u2026 ought to have six,\u201d he wrote. When stated this baldly, it is surely obvious that the desire to maintain so-called political expertise is actually a thinly disguised attempt to entrench the interests of an educated middle class.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

"Surely obvious?"  It is not obvious at all. Why should my informed, thoughtful, independent vote be cancelled out by the vote of some know-nothing tribalist who votes according to the dictate of his tribal leader?  Not that I quite agree with Grayling.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fraser and Grayling appear to represent extremes both of which ought to be avoided. I get the impression that there is a certain animosity between the two men. <\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/span><\/p>\n

Grayling responds to Fraser<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here, with a tip of the hat to Karl White: John Stuart Mill was another philosopher who believed something similar. In 1859 he published his Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform, in which he proposed a voting system heavily weighted towards the better educated. \u201cIf every ordinary unskilled labourer had one vote \u2026 a member of any profession requiring … Continue reading “Giles Fraser on A. C. Grayling on Voting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[582,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mill-john-stuart","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}