PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE POLITICAL MORALITY IN A LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE POLITICAL MORALITY IN A LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims at a reflection on whether there is, and if yes, to which extent, an influence of public apolitical sphere on development on morality in public political sphere. In liberal democracy countries it is assumed that the private sphere is the sphere of morality and ethics, and the public spheres, both apolitical and political one, are spheres of law-based community. Thus, the paper analyses whether such division between politics and morality is well grounded. Wasn’t it exactly placing morality exclusively in the private sphere, as proponents of liberal democracy do, that led to the triumph of political realism i.e. total elimination of morality for public sphere which has its consequences in the idea that public good being idealistically understood as care for the common good seems to become and aberration? Should thus political morality be only understood as a kind of “fair war” i.e. a war that sets the framework for various ethics rivalling? Response to this question will be the focal point of this paper.

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