Is the Majority Always Right? — Democracy and Rationality Part I

Is the Majority Always Right? — Democracy and Rationality Part I

The concept of political theology first entered modern political thought in Carl Schmitt’s classic work, originally published in 1922. As Schmitt writes: ‘All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development, in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver, bu…