Democracy as a Confessional State
This article tries to show that the modern democratic state is not free from phenomena usually connected with fundamentalist confessional states. The starting point - the definition of 'confessional state' in ethical and not religious categories - draws attention also to programmatically &...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2001
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Totalitarian movements and political religions
Year: 2001, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 39-53 |
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| Summary: | This article tries to show that the modern democratic state is not free from phenomena usually connected with fundamentalist confessional states. The starting point - the definition of 'confessional state' in ethical and not religious categories - draws attention also to programmatically 'anti-religious' confessions, that is various ideologies as determinants of such a state. Philosophical analysis of different state models leads us to the project of the 'state of ethical minimum' as the best solution for an ethically differentiated society, which, however, is constantly disturbed and undermined by the inner logic of the political system of democracy. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-9647 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Totalitarian movements and political religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/714005449 |