ЕТИЧКИ ОСНОВИ ПОПУЛАЦИОНЕ ПОЛИТИКЕ
ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POPULATION POLICY

Summary/Abstract: The population policy in Serbia proper and in Voivodina, on the one hand, and this policy in Kosovo, on the other, is analyzed in the present article on the ground of four ethical principles, namely: (I) that is ethical which has a universal human validity; (II) lack of domination over people and recognition of man’s freedom; (III) the sense of man’s responsibility, and (IV) human autonomy. In both cases there is a lack of necessary balance: in one case it is expressed as depopulation or insufficient natural growth, while in the other it is evaluated as excessive demographic explosion. While analyzing the causes of these two situations, the author evaluates the population policy in accordance with mentioned ethical norms. It is inacceptable not only on political, economic, socio- psychological, but also on the ethical grounds because it does not create equal conditions for the development of creative potentials of the entire populat ion of Serbia - which should be the basic principle of modem ethical consciousness.

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