Epistemologia della democrazia e modernità. La posta in gioco del superamento dell’Illuminismo in Europa occidentale
What we are used to call democracy, is it really always democracy? Answering negatively to this oxymoronic question, the author aims to examine this ambiguous notion from the point of view of the cosmosystemic epistemology. Highlighting the epistemological superficiality of the contemporary age, gui...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Diacronie
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea |
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| Online Access: | http://www.studistorici.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/14_CONTOGEORGIS.pdf |
| Summary: | What we are used to call democracy, is it really always democracy? Answering negatively to this oxymoronic question, the author aims to examine this ambiguous notion from the point of view of the cosmosystemic epistemology. Highlighting the epistemological superficiality of the contemporary age, guilty of not being able to understand the nature of the present constitutional structures of western Europe, the article demonstrates that current governments are not democracies, neither are they the arrival point of the institutional evolution of the anthropocentric cosmosystem, as they embody instead its pre-representative proto-anthropocentric phase. The articulate argumentation develops through the delineation of the purpose of democracy (the actualisation of individual, social and political freedom), the description of its socio-economic and political system, the contrastive analysis between it and non-democratic governments and, lastly, the contextualisation of democracy in its historical milieu, via an overview on the diachronic evolution of the types of government which belong to the anthropocentric cosmosystem. |
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| ISSN: | 2038-0925 2038-0925 |