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Chapter Twenty-Four: Democracy versus Theocracy.
I.
§ 199.Opposition between Democracy and theocratic Aristocracy: the democratic Spirit of Industry as contrasted with the aristocratic Desire to rule.—The democratic Characteristics of Science, Philosophy, and Art.—Criticism as Determinant of Democracy |
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§ 200.Democracy and Religion.—Democracy has an ethical, not a religious foundation: it is founded upon Justice.—The Right of Initiative.—Democratic Catholicity (popular Sovereignty) |
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II.
§ 201.Catholicism and Protestantism in Relation to Democracy.—Protestantism positively demands Democracy.—General Inferiority of Catholic Countries.—Catholicism more radical and revolutionary |
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§ 202.Inferiority of Orthodox Catholicism.—Russians are comparatively revolutionary, but comparatively undemocratic |
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Chapter Twenty-Five: Democracy and Revolution.
§ 203.The concept of Revolution; modern Revolutionism.—Its Evolution.—Distinction between Catholic and Protestant Peoples as regards the Degree of Revolutionism |
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§ 204.The ethical Problem of Revolution; is Revolution attended by Bloodshed permissible? |
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§ 205.The jurist Defenders and Opponents of Revolution.—Natural Law versus historical Law |
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§ 206.Thomas Paine as a typical democratic Revolutionary.—The Russian Revolution anarchistic, nihilistic, but comparatively undemocratic |
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§ 207.Bakuninism and Blanquism; Russian Revolutionism akin to French.—Western Catholicism and Orthodox Catholicism the Nurseries of Revolutionism of this Type |
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Chapter Twenty-Six: Holy Russia; the Russian Monk and Feuerbach.
§ 208.Russian Catholicism (Orthodoxy) disintegrated by (German) Protestantism.—Feuerbach's materialistic Anthropologism and the Russian Monk with his third Century Orthodoxy.—Sudden Exposure to the Influences of a higher Civilisation.—Russian Passivism revolutionised by European Activism.—Russian philosophico-historical and philosophico-religious Analysis of this historical Process; the Problem of Solipsism and of Crime; Murder and Suicide.—Impulse to Suicide and the Revolutionary Spirit from the eighteenth Century onwards |
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