Philosophical concept
Democracy
Democracy locates political authority in citizens and depends on rights, procedures, and a culture of discussion.
- Works
- 37
- Passages
- 20,972
- Thinkers
- 14
- Traditions
- 6
Understand uses of the concept
Democracy locates political authority in citizens and depends on rights, procedures, and a culture of discussion.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 20,972 passages across 37 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: démocratie, democracy, democratic
Works where the concept is identified
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 982 passages
- Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 19,210 passages
- Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
- Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
- PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
- PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
- RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
- AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
- On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
- On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
- Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
- The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
- The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 169 passages
- Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 0 passages
- Apology of SocratesPlato · 0 passages
- Letters Attributed to PlatoPlato · 0 passages
- LawsPlato · 0 passages
- MenexenusPlato · 0 passages
- RepublicPlato · 0 passages
- StatesmanPlato · 0 passages
- Table TalkPlutarch · 0 passages
- Interview on The Philosopher on CallRaphaël Enthoven · 0 passages
- On BenefitsSeneca · 0 passages
- On LeisureSeneca · 0 passages
- Moral Letters to LuciliusSeneca · 0 passages
- Socrates in Plato’s ApologyPlato · 0 passages
- Socrates in Plato’s RepublicPlato · 0 passages
- Socrates in Xenophon’s MemorabiliaXenophon · 0 passages
- Political Treatise, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza · 120 passages