„Democrația” înainte de partide
"Democracy" before Parties

Summary/Abstract: The article portrays the main tendencies of the concept of "democracy" in the 19th century Romanian political thought, before the formal creation of the political parties. Using the methodological basis of conceptual history (Kos- selleck, Skinner, Farr etc.), the author follows the emergence of several meanings of "democracy", in the pre- and post-1848 cultural and intellectual context, related, at first, with the 17th century philosophical heritage (Descartes, Locke etc. ) and slowly translated into the 19th century philosophical language. The European invention of some fundamental concepts, such as "Revolution" and "Nation State", including some essential debates opposing democracy and equality and linking the democratic system with the idea of representation and universal vote, is also present in various ways in the Romanian political thought.

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