Liberal democracy as a result of the Christian society development
Keywords:
Christianity, church, power, policy, empire, state nation, legitimacy, liberal democracyAbstract
Article is devoted to search of the key moment for formation of liberal democracy. From the point of view of the author, that is adoption of Christianity by Rome as the state religion. The author analyzes a retrospective of relationship of the empire as forms of political education (institutional system) and Christianity as means of legitimization of the power (valuable system). Christianity has the institute of church which is alternative institutional system. The coexistence of the empire and Christianity led to emergence political autonomism, which generated new forms of political formations. New form created new valuable system for his legitimization (began to use the public contract), which transformed a source of the sacral – from the governor and god to the peopleDOI: 10.17072/2218-1067-2016-3-20-36References
Löwenthal R. Gesellsschaftliche Transformation und demokratischeLegitimität: Zu Jürgen HabermasAnalyse der Krisentendenzenim "Spätkapitalismus". Löwenthal R. Gesellschaftswandel und Kultukrise. Frankfurt am Main: Fisher TaschenbuchVerlag, 1980. (Cited from: Salmin A.M. Religion, pluralism and genesis of political culture of the West. Salmin A.M.Selected articles. M., FORUM, 2010.) (In German).
Berman H. J.The formation of the western legal tradition.M.,Moscow University Press, 1998. (In Rus.).
Ilyin M. V. Words and meanings: Polity. Republic. Constitution. Fatherland.Polis. Political Studies, 1994. №4, №5.(In Rus.).
Kaspe S.I.Centers and hierarchies: spatial metaphors of the power and the western political form. Abstract of Dr.polit. sci. diss.M., 2009. Available at: http://www.mgimo.ru/files/70733/avtoref_kaspe.doc (accessed 23.04.13). (In Rus.).
KaspeS.I.Centers and hierarchies: spatial metaphors of the power and western political form. M., 2007. (In Rus.).
Le Goff J.Medieval Civilization. Sretensk, 2000. (In Rus.).
Manan P. Public course of political philosophy. M., 2003. Available at: http://msps.su/files/2010/12/Wer-MANAN_NV.pdf (accessed 23.04.13). (In Rus.).
Musikhin G. I. Power and domination: history of concepts. Conceptualization of policy. M., 2001. P. 238-255. (In Rus.).
Pshevorsky A. Democracy and market. Political and democratic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Ed. by prof. Bazhenov. M., ROSSPEN Publ., 2000. (In Rus.).
Salmin A.M. Modern democracy: sketches of formation and development. M., FORUM publ., 2009.(In Rus.).
Salmin A.M. Church, state and policy in the Catholic world.Salmin A.M.Selected works. M., FORUMpubl., 2010. (In Rus.).
SitnikovA.V. Orthodoxyand democracy onthe question of influence of the religious factor on political consciousness and political culture of Russia. Politeia.2004.№4. P. 77-95. Available at: http://ecsocman.hse.ru/text/36906226 (accessed 03.05.13). (In Rus.).
Thomas AquinasDeAbout the government of sovereigns. Available at: http://www .vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/Italy/XIII/12601280/Thomas_Aquin_de_Regimine/pred.phtml? id=6057 (accessed 23.04.13). (In Rus.).
Chaadayev P. Ya. Philosophical letters.Available at: http://www.vehi.net/chaadaev/filpisma.html (accessed 07.03.11)
Yampolsky M. B. Physiology of symbols. Book 1. Return of the Leviathan.M.,NovoeliteraturnoeobozreniePubl., 2004. (In Rus.).
Jaspers K. The origin and goal of history. Issue 1. M., INION Publ., 1978.(In Rus.).
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The author grants the Publisher of the journal (Perm State University) the right to use their article in the journal, as well as to include the text of the abstract, the full text of the article and information about authors in the "Russian Science Citation Index" (RSCI).
The author agrees to the processing of personal data.
The right to use the journal as a whole belongs to the Publisher and acts indefinitely on the territory of the Russian Federation and beyond in accordance with cl. 1260 of the Russian Federation Civil Code.
There is no author's fee paid for providing the above rights by the author.
The author of the article included in the journal retains the exclusive right to it, regardless of the Publisher's right to use the journal as a whole:
a. The authors retain their copyrights to the article and transfer the right of the first publication along with the article to the journal, while also licensing it on the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to distribute this article with the obligatory indication of authorship of the article and reference to the original publication in this journal.
b. The authors retain the right to enter into separate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive dissemination of the version of the text published by this journal (for example, post it in a university archive or publish it in a book), with reference to the original publication in this journal.
c. d. Authors are allowed to post their text on the Internet (for example, in a university archive or on their personal website) before and during the review process by this journal, as this can lead to a fruitful discussion and to higher number of the references to this published work (Please refer to The Effect of Open Access).
Submission of an article by the author implies that they agree for it to be used by the Publisher on the above conditions and to be included in the RSCI system. It also implicates that the author is aware of the terms of its use. The information about the author sent to the Publisher, including by e-mail, is also considered as such consent.
The editorial board posts the full text of the article on the Perm State University site: http://www.psu.ru and in the OJS system at http://press.psu.ru
The publication fee is not collected and fees are not paid. The author's copy is sent to the author to the address provided by them.
