Utopizmus a realita demokracie Prečítať

UTOPIANISM AND REALITY OF DEMOCRACY

Daniel Dobiaš 

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Politické vedy, Volume 17, Number 1/2014, pages 6-26

Odporúčaná forma citácie článku / Recommended form for quotation of the article: DOBIAŠ, D. 2014. Utopizmus a realita demokracie. In Politické vedy. [online]. Roč. 17, č. 1, 2014. ISSN 1335 – 2741, s. 6-26. Dostupné na internete: <http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/userfiles/file/1_2014/DOBIAS.pdf>.

ABSTRACT

The evolution of rationalism, freedom or democracy is marked by contradictions and by antithesis of ideals to which human in this process heads. The article deals with a content contradictions of components which are immanent parts of the political system of the liberal democracy. We figure to discuss differences between a romantic innocence of the term and the reality of a power balance. As a result of this reality, there are some unequalities between economic and social relations, a dualism between a utopian perfectionism of the creators and a political pragmatism of the power elites which are concentrated in supranational bureaucratic and financial centers - an antagonism of the real democratic conditions and standard preconditions formulated in a theory.

Key words: rationalism, freedom, democracy, utopia, political pragmatism