TIKĖJIMO TIKĖJIMAI
THE BELIEVES OF FAITH
Author(s): Gintautas VyšniauskasSubject(s): Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Semantics
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: liberalism; neoliberalism; faith; civil religion; general semantics; transcendence;
Summary/Abstract: Triumph of liberalism, announced by Fukuyama in 1992, resulted in the international financial and economic crisis of 2007–2009. Political crisis followed in the shape of the Brexit and MAGA dividing Western society in two hostile camps: liberals and traditionalists, globalists and nationalists. Since up till now the former held sway, their ideology, as a possible cause of those crises, came under scrutiny which revealed its many religious traits. Therefore some researchers concluded that present liberalism is closer to religious faith than to philosophical or political theory. This article considers is that possible and how it is possible? Employing metodology of general semantics it shows that absurdity of expectations is the main commom trait of Christian as well as liberal doctrins. But in order to become religious faith, these doctrins have to have polititical instititutions – churches and governments – which promote and realize their own profitable busines projects.
Journal: LOGOS - A Journal of Religion, Philosophy, Comparative Cultural Studies and Art
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 98
- Page Range: 112-118
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Lithuanian