Apie politiką ir vertybes
On politics and values

Summary/Abstract: The paper disputes the thesis of Jokubaitis’s article “Politics Without Values”, that purely political understanding of things is impossible for there are no purely political values. Therefore no decision could be based on purely political values. Razma argues that values as well as politics are not things but phenomena, which together make up a system where the former make its elements and the latter constitute the process. For analytical purposes the system can be dissembled into component parts, but the conclusions of analysis must refer to the systematic nature of the relationship between the parts. The politics as an axiological process is impossible without values, and any value can only gain acknowledgement through the process of politics. Therefore, the politics is always axiological, and common values of any society are always political.

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