Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

no biće, a stvara automat bez svijesti i odgovornosti. Smatra da su novac, ugled
i moć tri razloga za postajanje političarom u modernom svijetu.
Koja je uloga pozitivnih zakona? Kakav je odnos građana, a kakav vladajućih
prema njima? Što je čovjek bez prava? Kakva je uloga intelektualaca, a
kakva lokalnih poduzetnika? Tko čini političku scenu? Žive li političari za ili
od politike? Što čini političara, što člana, a što simpatizera stranke? To su samo
neka pitanja koja Weber postavlja. Različita razdoblja daju i različite odgovore.
U ovome ćemo se radu baviti odgovorima na ta pitanja u demokratskom
društvu jugoistoka Europe posljednjih 20-ak godina. Uz spomenutu problematiku,
bit će riječ i o populizmu, ulozi medija te prijelazu iz jednostranačja u
višestranačje na primjeru zemalja u tranziciji.
POLITICS AS A VOCATION
IN THE SOUTHeast EUROPE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES
In his major work, Politics as a Vocation, Max Weber defined the state
as an entity which successfully claims a “monopoly on the legitimate use of
violence”. The political realm is no realm for saints; one, becoming a politician,
ends his ethics of ultimate and the ethics of responsibility, and he must
possess both a passion for his vocation and the capacity to distance himself
from the subject of his exertions. Weber thinks that although society is a way
of organization of individual’s specific actions, individual states of mind and
of will are not a part of social reality. Therefore society cannot be viewed as the
pure total of human actions.
Duty of the call, the obligation which an individual feels and must feel
towards the content of his vocation is the main thought of social ethics. The
purpose of politics in the Modern age is not to achieve a happy and good life of
a citizen, as it once was in the ancient world. We now have the situation of ethics
vs. politics. Politics is a technique of ruling, while the goal of political action
is to increase human power in all social activities of the modern industrial
society which demands progress of individuality and political responsibility of
those who were chosen to defend the rights. Weber was worried about bureaucratisation
of the society because he was afraid it could prevent an individual
from living as a rational being, making him a machine without conscience
and responsibility. He thinks that money, reputation and power represent three
reasons for becoming a politician in the modern society.
What is the role of positive laws? What is the relationship of positive laws
towards both the citizens and the ruling class? What is the man without the
rights? What is the role of the intellectuals and the one of the local entrepre-
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