Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

THE FOUNDATION OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
WITHOUT LIBERAL VALUES
A Case of the Southeast Europe Twenty Years Later
Political liberalism, as a distinctive doctrine of liberal democracy, has its
legitimacy in the political culture of a democratic society that is marked by liberal
values. In his article “The Appeal of Political Liberalism” in 1994, Samuel
Scheffler concludes that political liberalism as such, has nothing to offer to aspiring
democracies in (South) East Europe which have no liberal tradition and
whose public political cultures suffer from a chronic lack of liberal values.
Chronic lack of liberal political culture did not prevent ad hoc transformation
of the communist countries of the Southeast Europe in the liberal democratic
system.
Today, twenty years later, the societies of Southeast Europe, formally and
institutionally, are liberal democratic societies. They are liberal democratic because
they have accepted capitalistic economic system, but they still have not
achieved transformation of the political values. In the process of transformation
of the value system, education in the humanities and arts plays crucial
role. That kind of education in Southeast Europe has no value because it is
market unoriented. So the question is how something that is understood as
marginal values can provide production or transformation of the values?
We believe that without adequate development of liberal political culture
and liberal values there can not be adequate legitimacy of liberal democracy
in Southeast Europe.
NENAD CEKIĆ
Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Beogradu, Srbija /
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia
LINGVISTIČKI REVIZIONIZAM
U SUVREMENOJ METAETICI
Metaetika s kraja 20. i početka 21. stoljeća pokazuje znakove revitalizacije.
To se vidi iz ogromne produkcije tekstova i knjiga koji se bave ovom
disciplinom. Međutim, hiperprodukcija ne mora značiti i kvalitetu. Suvremeni
ekspresivizam zamijenio je svog prethodnika (emotivizam), pitanje je samo
koliko uspješno. Njihovi teorijski suparnici, naturalisti, pokušavaju levitirati
između metodoloških pretpostavki i supstantivnih tvrdnji. Ali i suvremeni eks-
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