DOI:
10.18413/2408-932X-2021-7-1-0-13
On the Konstantin Leontiev’s understanding of democracy
This article examines K.N. Leontiev's critique of democracy in the context of Plato and Aristotle's classical critique of democracy. Being in a conservative position in relation to Russian culture and considering the historical evidence, Leontiev puts forward a system of criticisms of democracy and, in his view, the most successful provisions for the development of Russian culture. Success is seen as not utilitarianism, but a morality that leads to internal diversity, which is considered as an aesthetic priority, expressed, for example, in social hierarchy.
Keywords: Konstantin Leontiev,
critique of democracy,
Russian conservatism,
criticism of progressivism,
organicism.
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