Demokratisches Selbstverständnis: historsche Entwicklungen und systematische Grundlagen
Journal
Jahrbuch Politisches Denken
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2023
Author(s)
Abstract
Democracies as common projects of freedom, equality and solidarity are historically and systematically based on a form of recognition of universal personal indeterminacy. If persons are understood politically as free and participating, then this affects not only their understanding of self and freedom, but also their understanding of social and political belonging. Criteria for identifying the affiliation of persons thus become recognizable, firstly, as socio-political constructions, which, secondly, are not able to determine persons comprehensively or to grasp them completely. In a democratic perspective, as is argued here on the basis of the ancient conception of democratic polypragmosyne, criteria for social and political belonging are to be recognized as hypothetical and personal identity as a lifelong process and a category that is always open to questioning.
HSG Classification
contribution to practical use / society
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Duncker & Humblot
Publisher place
Berlin
Volume
32
Number
1
Start page
171
End page
189
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