{"id":58200,"date":"2024-05-30T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=58200"},"modified":"2024-05-31T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:40:06","slug":"anthroposophy-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/anthroposophy-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthroposophy and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"In recent times, anthroposophy has often been suspected of having anti-democratic overtones. Yet, the essential gestures of democracy and anthroposophy have much in common. It\u2019s worth comparing the form of government and the world view.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecently, the journalist Jens Jessen put forward the theory that the current \u201cconcern about democracy\u201d expresses \u201cabove all an increasing hostility of voters towards each other. They do not doubt the functioning of democracy, but rather despair at the voting behaviour of others. They confuse the democratic with the politically desirable\u2014and the undesirable seems undemocratic to them.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. It is not the democratic state that is in danger, but rather our understanding of democracy has become tendentious and partisan.\u201d The core of democr<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent times, anthroposophy has often been suspected of having anti-democratic overtones. Yet, the essential gestures of democracy and anthroposophy have much in common. It\u2019s worth comparing the form of government and the world view. Recently, the journalist Jens Jessen put forward the theory that the current \u201cconcern about democracy\u201d expresses \u201cabove all an increasing hostility of voters towards each other. They do not doubt the functioning of democracy, but rather despair at the voting behaviour of others. They confuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9164,"featured_media":57136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8823,8790],"tags":[11513,11465,8824],"class_list":["post-58200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflection","category-society-en","tag-english-issue-22-2024","tag-ausgabe-15-2024","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}