De l’idéal démocratique. Les Anciens et les Modernes

Abstract

The current post-historical era that we live in has transformed the transmission of national heritage into a pejorative term, due to humanity‘s commitment to a vague conception of democracy without any specific content and a vast number of subjective rights of uncertain efficacy. Nowadays, people replace the contextually bound notion of polités (Greek citizen), which has a very important historical background, with that of a person who tries to be liberated from the contingencies of history in order to acquire a new universality in abstracto. As a result, the universality of human rights has been regularly opposed to cultural specificities. Post-historical democracy aims at substituting culture with a prefabricated civilization, namely an artificial one, according to the political expediencies of world’s powerful strategists, thus pushing democracy far away from natural procedures.

Keywords

• democracy; Greece; virtue; equality; freedom; republic