Democracy and Liberal Morality

Democracy calls for tact and diplomacy and rejection of despotism whitin the framework of a triple side; legalism, political participation and supervision. The mentioned goal, based merely the on the triple side, seems far-reaching. The pages of history reveal the black record of democracy. Weakness or, in other words lack of, the fourth side, i.e morality, has made democracy, which apparently has a human nature, devoid of the sense of humanity. The fact is that democracy is proposed by man whose aim is to profit by other's intellectual ability and who acts as a profiteer, and as a selfish and exploitative creature. The attempts made by this creature to take power leads to outburst and contravention of all limitations including the rules of democracy. What makes man approve the characteristics which by democracy enjoys and which somehow correspond to ethical rules is that democracy has developed in as a logical and justifiable ground. But the little-known fact is that most of the schools democracy which advocate are unable to provide such ground for democracy and their claims about democracy-seeking have no signs in social realities. The present paper investigates the mentioned issue by concentrating on liberalism as the great advocate of democracy. The research result shows that liberal rationality cannot contribute to the cultivation and fertility of democracy. In fact, liberalism renders ethical rules invalid by ordering rationality according to humanism, individualism, secularism and profit-seeking and then shows that observing democracy rules only at the times when they are of benefit to man is not reasonable.