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Political Philosophy - Assignment

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Running head: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYThe Question of democracyName of the student:Name of the university:Author note
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1POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYQ. How does Lefort understand the formal distinction between monarchy (what hesometimes calls the “ancient regime”) and democracy?A.Claude Lefort, a renowned philosopher of France was inspired by CorneliusCastoriadis and organised a communist conference in Paris in the year 1943. He was aprofessor of University at Sao Paulo and had introduced the theory of Totalitarian Enterprise(Lefort, 1988). He had made a difference in between the various stages of government andpower. He has differentiated in between the democracy and monarchy. His theory ofdemocracy is based on the concept of totalitarian and he has maintained the analysing processof USSR. He has characterised the concept of democracy as institutional conflict of thesociety and his concept of democracy has recognised the legitimate existence of divergentinterest (Gashkov & Rubtsova, 2017). According to Lefort, the power should not be confinedin any specific individual, but it should be regularised and the people should get the option toelect their representative who will regulate the law for the interest of public. The concept ofdemocracy has been introduced by this idea. He had raised his voice against the monarchicalpower and was of the view that the power should be confined in the hands of the majority.According to Dominique Colas, “power comes from the people and belongs to no one."Lefort has considered democracy as beginning of a new era and accept modern as well asrepresentative democracy but did not support the limited scope of democracy (Howard,2016).He had pointed out certain characteristics of monarchy too and according to him, inthe monarchical system, power has been confined in the hand of the king. Here the termpower does not denote unlimited power. King was a mediator between God and mortals andwork for the sovereignty of justice. The power of the king is unconditional and the peoplehave no right to interfere in the power of the monarchy (Lefort, 2016).
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