Uz pojmove "političko djelovanje" i "znanstveno-tehnički svijet"
On the Concepts of "Political Activity" and the "Scientific-Technical World"

Summary/Abstract: The ambiguity of the notion underlying the topic "Possibilities of political action in the scientific-political world" can be expressed by means of two questions: (1) is it actually possible at all to perform political activity in the scientific-technical world, and (2) how this can be done? Responses to these questions presuppose a certain understanding of "political activity" and of the "scientific-technical world". The author offers a critical analysis of the understanding of these concepts and their relationships, as implied in the title and in the short preview, concluding that it left almost no ground for considering the topic as an authentic problem of practical philosophy, with the intention to rehabilitate it in the spirit of Aristotle. An essential perequisite of the examination of possibilities for political activity in contemporary world, in the author’s opinion, is the realisation that modern science and technology are also an activity, i.e. practice. In the scientific¬-technical world political activity is possible only if technocracy is understood as an ideology, that is to say, the modern form of the political struggle for power.

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