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2,234 Descriptions of Democracy: An Update to Democracy’s Ontological Pluralism
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2,234 Descriptions of Democracy: An Update to Democracy’s Ontological Pluralism
Contradictory Concepts
An Essay on the Semantic Structure of Religious Discourses
Lucian Hölscher
The widespread opinion among conceptual historians is that political concepts are always contested in their actual usage. Religious concepts in modernity are also not only contested; they are constructed on an ontological contradiction. They imply that the object to which they refer exists, and at the same time that it does not. I demonstrate this idea using four religious concepts: religion, God, the beyond, and spirit. I conclude with discussion on the reality status of religious concepts in modern historiography and religious studies.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 69–88 (20 total)
Eternity and Print
How Medieval Ideas of Time Influenced the Development of Mechanical Reproduction of Texts and Images
Bennett Gilbert
created that it “emanates.” Plotinus flattens the process of creation: as emanation it is a strictly rational development of the ontologically dependent many out of the absolutely simple One and not at all a temporal process. 26 Gregory will stand for
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–21 (21 total)
Democratic Theory as Social Codification
Christian Ewert and Marion Repetti
as semiotic code serves an important purpose. It turns our attention away from ontological and normative claims about democracy; instead, the focus is on sociopolitical discourses and patterns of communication that constitute democratic theory
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 58–69 (12 total)
Book Symposium
Nancy S. Love, Sanford F. Schram, Anthony J. Langlois, Luis Cabrera, and Carol C. Gould
liberals who understand rights as properties possessed by individuals and conferred by states, Gould adopts what she calls an “interactive approach” based on a “social ontology” that understands “individuals-in-relations” (3). In addition to liberal
The Will of the People?
Carl Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on a Key Question in Democratic Theory
Samuel Salzborn
ontological nature, must eventually become its opposite, thereby negating the current real-world will of the people, that is, the sum of the wills of all individuals, which are always changeable and varying in practice. The following analysis proposes that
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 11–34 (24 total)
Assessing Democracy In Vitro, In Vivo, and In Actu and the Role of Democratic Theory Today
Anastasia Deligiaouri and Jane Suiter
in different contexts, may be contradictory, providing ground for uncertainty and confusion. Conversely, ambiguity and semantic pluralism are ontologically inherent in the concept of democracy itself and can also be considered as a constructive
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 70–84 (15 total)
An Intellectual Genealogy of the Revolt against “Esprit de Système”
From the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment
Jeffrey D. Burson
of Aristotle; of Neoplatonists like Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus; and of Hermetic texts. In this way, then, both Ficino and Pico synthesized scholastic ontological hierarchies with the moral philosophy of humanism, and their systems popularized
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 21–44 (24 total)