34, Reflections 111 - 113 111.
Democracy is a very old social conception of the then Greek thinkers.
The original meaning of the notion 'democracy' is based upon man as a free and independent individual, who rules his own society, together with the others. However not democracy in the meaning of a group consisting of anonymous members, like usual in the western world, but on the contrary as a kind of an addition sum, consisting of various individuals, everyone with his own personal contribution to the whole. So the society isn't taken as a collectivity but as a collection of people, with the individual as starting point of the line of thought. In fact this classical Greek democracy is totally different from the modern western one. In a way, namely regarding the idea, it even turns out to be far more mature.