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The purpose of this work is to show how until the Modern Age, democracy has not been considered as the best form of government, both because of the accidental nature of all the political systems and for pragmatic reasons. Democracy’s leading role has had to await the emergence of political individualism and the modern notion of subjective will, in parallel with the erosion of the idea of common good and of its corresponding rationality. In such conditions, democracy is configured following two paradigmatic models: the liberal and the republican, with their correlative and problematic model of civic virtue. These models operated as technical mechanisms for guaranteeing social unity until their succession by post-modernism, whose notion of absolute subjectivity has removed any relational limit and with it all possibility of political virtue.
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García, J.C.U. (2022). On Contemporary Democratism: The Twilight of Political Virtue and Its Paradoxes. In: Gómez Gutiérrez, J.J., Abdelnour-Nocera, J., Anchústegui Igartua, E. (eds) Democratic Institutions and Practices. Contributions to Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10808-2_4
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