On the (non-)productiveness of dichotomies in the evolution of liberal democracy in search of a better human and a better world Cover Image

O (ne)produktívnosti dichotómií v evolúcii liberálnej demokracie pri hľadaní lepšieho človeka a sveta
On the (non-)productiveness of dichotomies in the evolution of liberal democracy in search of a better human and a better world

Author(s): Daniel Dobiáš, Soňa Dobiášová
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences
Published by: Ústav politických vied Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: liberal democracy; rationalism; idea of moral will; capitalism

Summary/Abstract: The work deals with the civilization trajectory of human reality which is marked by dichotomy of its own progressive and regressive features. In the intellectual tradition of Europe, there is the core of the desire to be recognized as a human being in an idea of dignity, freedom and moral will, supported by the power of human reason. The above mentioned characteristics limit and at the same time allow the reflection of steady conceptual structures in the evolution of modern liberal democracies, The perspective of awareness of ambiguity and paradoxical content of individual parameters of liberal democracy, ideologically shaped and fixed by worldviews of economic and political elites, from our point of view, is a mirror image of how those conditions differ from the standard assumptions formulated in theory.

  • Issue Year: XI/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 35-46
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Slovak