(March 30, 2018 at 5:56 pm)Mathilda Wrote:(March 30, 2018 at 4:13 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: In modern times, there are some people who think we should reinstate compulsory prayer in schools.
Why, according to empirical data, is that a bad idea?
Why not implement theocracy instead of a democracy?
If only there were a field of study that addressed such questions...
Politics, psychology, sociology and (according to economists in the introduction to their books but at no other time afterwards) ... economics.
None of those fields are equipped to answer the questions I asked in my first post and only draw upon their relation to philosophy when they do so. Show me empirical data which favors democracy over theocracy.
I know why democracy is better than theocracy, and it's not because of empirical data. I draw upon something else when answering this question, namely reason, values, and an assessment of the human condition (all firmly within the wheelhouse of philosophy).
