“Lack of interest in politics”: a result of non-democratic experiences or of the non-existence of the Kantian republican state in the 21st century?

• Authors: Enders, Mark

Abstracts

EN

This essay examines the appearance of distrust, disinterest and aversion to politics and political participation in today’s democracies by taking the Kantian concept of a republican state into account. The goal is to find out reasons for the lack of interest in politics by investigating certain aspects in today’s democracies that might be not in compliance with the Kantian understanding of republicanism. The essay will start with an examination of the republican state and why it is mostly referred to as being much as the parliamentary democracy we know today. Then, these results will be compared with modern democracies (USA, Switzerland and Germany) in order to find the underlying reasons for the lack of interest in politics and how it might be possible to overcome it.

Keywords

EN

politics; lack of interest in politics; republicanism; republican constitution; people’s sovereignty; perpetual peace; democracy; non-democratic experience; betzavta method; responsibility

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Studies in Global Ethics and Global Education
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 57-71

Dates

published

2019-06-18

Contributors

author

Enders, Mark

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.2507