Affiliations: [a] Fordham University Business Schools, New York, NY, USA | [b] Panteion University of Athens, Athens, Hellas
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Corresponding author: Nicholas C. Georgantzas, Fordham University Business Schools, 113 West 60th Street, Suite 617-D, New York, NY 10023-7484, U.S.A. Tel.: +1 917 667 4022; Fax: +1 212 765 5573; E-mail: georgantzas@fordham.edu
Abstract: Without suggesting our modernity's return to antiquity, this article looks at the principles behind Athenians' authentic democracy, which can help our modern temporality metamorphose for the benefit of all concerned. Democracy's multiple equality, liberty and civic-accountability dimension bundles take their role in a multi-perspective dialectic about their dynamic societal implications. The article also shows a couple of small system dynamics (SD) models of political corruption, in order to showcase a major problem that Athenians' authentic democracy de-solved rather effectively; particularly when compared to the vast failures of our postmodern temporality's ‘gated’ business, economic, societal and political systems. The juxtaposition of an acute problematic situation – such as political corruption is in our modernity – and the principles behind the multi-dimensional political structure that managed this problematic effectively in the past points to the systemic leverage required for the metamorphosis needed in our postmodern business, economic, societal and political systems worldwide.
Keywords: Aristotle, democracy, dualism, economy, Heidegger, leverage, modernity, Parmenides, Plato, politics, society, system dynamics (SD), systems thinking (ST), temporality, totalism
