A politikai igazságosságról (Otfried Höffe politikai filozófiája) II. rész
On Political Righteousness (Otfried Höffe’s Political Philosophy) Part II

Summary/Abstract: In his theory of political justice Otfried Höffe focuses the attention on foundation of the legitimation and limitation of the power and expansion of modern state and law, which problems fall into the background of even such of outstanding contemporary philosophical conception as John Rawls’ theory of justice. Höffe develops his theory in three logically connected steps. First he argues for his starting assumption, that the legitimation and limitation of the state simultaneously constitute the basic problem of the modern political philosophy. The justification is achieved by a critical analysis of the philosophical and juridical positivism and of the theoretical anarchism. The second step is the construction of a suitable basic structure which is generally qualified for performing the requirement of legitimation and limitation of the power and expansion of the state. Höffe argues that this basic structure must be a real construction, and that is the modell of change, in contrast to the ideal contruction of the classical and modern contract theories as well. The third step is the definition of the basic principles and characterization of the institutional system focusing on the human and basic rights for the legitimation and limitation of the power and expansion of the contemporary modern state. Our study consists of two parts. The first part describes Höffes basic theoretical position, that is the „practical metaphysics” and follows his critical arguments for the necessity of construction of the basic structure. The second part provides a detailed analysis of Höffes considerations and starting points can be extracted for the foundation of the intercultural exercisable principles, predominatly the human rights. Finally we are argiung, that Höffes invention, on the antropological level definable modell of change, can be interpreted as the kernel of a relationantropology which can serve as the foundation for a reconsidered theory of justice.

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