Institute of Philosophy SAS
Topic
The influence of the concept of the Anthropocene on the philosophical theory of democracy
PhD. program
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
doc. Mgr. Richard Sťahel, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
Annotation
The concept of the Anthropocene points out that even political subjects are ultimately dependent on bio-geo-chemical flows of material on a planetary scale. However, pre- Anthropocene concepts of democracy do not take this fact into account and at the same time work mainly with territorially defined entities, referred to as states. However, few of the industrialized states are able to reproduce their material and political existence only from the resources available to them within the internationally recognized borders of their territory. States must therefore secure the resources for their reproduction, as well as the sinks for emissions and other waste produced by this reproduction, outside their territory. This is done mainly by power-based, i.e. undemocratic means and methods, which in fact allow highly industrialized states to live at the expense of others. The aim of the work is to identify and analyze the influence that these phenomena have on the theory of democracy.