What is the term that describes the condition of 'government by the most intelligent'?

Question

I think we need one.

Answer 1

The reality of the world of politics is way too realistic to be any good for just reading from books. None of the types of governments described above would ever be clever enough to work in a realistic situation, not even theocratic regimes. If then government will not work the people making such a government will prove not to be too smart after all. You see, the people trying to establish such a government may be clever within the fields of their own expertise, or they might have very high mental calibre but they would not be any good for the job of influencing and governing the lives of peoples who are not like them. All people may not be genius in their personal capacities but a population has a mind and intelligence of its own – crowds may be mad but they have a mind of their own and they are strong. I would therefore say that 'government by the most intelligent' would only be a democratic government. It has been proved.

Intelligence is not the ultimate merit of success and happiness in the word, wisdom is. If intelligence is too bright to bear close resemblance to its environment will not gain its relevance to it surroundings, it will stay mainly unfamiliar to ordinary folks, and will not considered their true representative. Therefore not clever, or smart!

Answer 2

I'm not sure that there is such a term.

'Meritocracy' refers to a state of being governed by the most talented - not necessarily the most intelligent. Many questions are begged by the term; it doesn't define what you have to be talented at, for example. Plato decided that those most qualified to govern were in fact philosophers, but his reasoning is extremely dodgy.

Briefly, he reasoned that those most qualified to govern were those who best understood what was Good - and those people were, conveniently enough for Plato, philosophers. That philosophers didn't necessarily understand what was Good, or that knowing what was Good didn't necessarily qualify you to run a place, were issues Plato never really addressed. His own descriptions of the ideal state (cf. his 'Republic' and his 'Laws') strike most modern readers as being remarkably totalitarian.

How are you going to define 'intelligence'? Even if you can arrive at a definition of it that a significant majority of people accept, what makes you think that the most intelligent people are best qualified to govern us? Since when, for that matter, do we need to be 'governed'? Aren't there other ways of organising public life besides just being governed by one class of persons?

Just throwing out suggestions...

Answer 3

A meritocracy is a government where each gets what he or she deserves (or merits). It's more about how the country is run than who runs the country. It certainly isn't the right answer in this case as "merit" doesn't mean intelligence.

Government by the intelligent would be a geniocracy.

Answer 4

i'm not disputing evolution, it really is occurring right this moment as we are speaking. Evolution is fulled of irrefutable information, and that i'm not the following to contradict them, yet i believe that someone began this, it isn't that i believe contained in the bible or absolutely one of those issues yet each and every thing is in basic terms too suitable to easily be a topic of organic randomness.

Answer 5

I would like to admit my political stance first, it's the duck and cover stance. One term to decribe the condition of the governement, hmm, confused. There unsure what is what, distracted by what they want as individuals, and then there is the whole I don't know exactly what I'm doing philosophy in there combined with some lies claiming every thing is just O.K.

Answer 6

A meritocracy would be gov't by the most meritous or able.
A technocracy would be gov't by a technolgically-advanced elite.
But I think the term you might be looking for would be a scientocracy, gov't by a ruling scientific class. (Or, a gov't which operates on the rules of scientific methodology.)

So maybe what you think we need might be a technomeritoscientocracy, or gov't by the best, most technologically advanced using principles of the scientific method. And yes, I did just make that last word up. :-)

Answer 7

An oligarchy of the intelligent, or a Philosopher King

Answer 8

Confuscious

Answer 9

Meritocracy is the right answer.
But it is unreal, because the people with merits often don't have the will of power, so we have to accept democracy.

Answer 10

I think that's known as a Blue ribbon committee.