Demophile

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The Greek foreign word demophil means 'loving the people' and is in contrast to demophobic 'hating, despising, fleeing the people'.

Historically, the term comes across in the following derivations or contexts:

As a Greek personal name Demophilos ('friend of the people'), also Latin Demophilus , Italian Demofilo , Spanish Demófilo - the name can be seen as a denomination of republican or democratic sentiments.
Les Démophiles : important French Masonic Lodge
L'Ami du Peuple , the newspaper of Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution was published
The Verein der Volksfreunde was a radical revolutionary association in Austria , which in the spring of 1848 called for the immediate establishment of a constituent parliament for the country (see also Anton Schütte )

In the human sciences, the expression can be found specifically as:

Demophilia : In political theory, the rule or attitude of an autocrat who is well-disposed towards the people , in journalism it is also a term for a kind of populism (sought proximity to popular opinion while at the same time distancing itself from the elite )
Demophilia-Topos : In research on classical Greek literature and oratorios, the name of an argumentation strategy against seducers of the people according to the pattern: "X pretends to be a friend of the people, but in truth pursues completely different interests" (see A. Scholtz, Concordia discors , Chapter 3, "He Loves You, He Loves You Not: Demophilic Courtship in Arisrophanes' Knights") - corresponds to today's term populist

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