TY - BOOK ED - Stekeler-Weithofer, Primin ED - Zabel, Benno AB - The freedom potential of modern societies, above all the justification of political authority, is today linked to a democratically constituted order. What is meant by the idea of being democratic seems, however, to be anything but clear. Is it only a question of representing the people through elections, ballots, and political parties, or does it include institutional culture, the division of powers, and the legal regime within a community? A "philosophy of the republic", as developed in this volume's contributions, shows that the current "dominance of the democratic" falls short of accounting for the independent significance to the republican self-organisation of state and society. DO - 10.1628/978-3-16-155407-0 ID - OAPEN ID: 1001771 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1062363180 KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophie KW - Philosophy KW - Government KW - Democracy KW - Elections KW - Philosophy of Law KW - Freedom Potential KW - Political Authority KW - Constitution KW - Division of Powers KW - Legal Regime KW - republican self-organisation KW - State KW - Society L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5a5d9ca0-c748-4f46-a21b-aaf3412b4168/1001771.pdf LA - German LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28222 PB - Mohr Siebeck PY - 2018-08-01 SN - 9783161543739;9783161554070 TI - Philosophie der Republiknull ER -