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Filozofia polityczna a racja stanu. Część 2: Od dominacji normatywnego uniwersalizmu do eliminacji partykularnego empiryzmu. Normatywność i polityczność zanikającego państwa

Alternative title:

Political philosophy and the reason of state. Part 2. From the domination of normative universalism to eliminating particular empiricism. Normativity and politicality of a disappearing state

Creator:

Rau, Zbigniew

ORCID:

0000-0002-8417-3456

Subject and Keywords:

reason of state   restrictions of freedom   democracy   politics   normativity   state   authoritarianism  
racja stanu   ograniczenia wolności   demokracja   polityczność   normatywność   państwo   autorytaryzm

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Stanowi kontynuację: Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Studia nad Faszyzmem i Zbrodniami Hitlerowskimi ; 1 (1974)-33 (2011) ; ISSN 0137-1126

Abstract:

Reason of state understood as the reason for its existence and expressed by a synthesis of the normative as well as the political, including its normative and empirical, universal and particular, abstract and concrete dimensions requires a justification by political philosophy. Yet, in the output of the main body of Western political philosophy, including the Aristotelian, Marxist, and liberal traditions, the reason of state lacks any validation. In those traditions, there is no distinction between the elements to be found in all states and those present only in some of them. In fact, both in Aristotle and Marx, the normative in the conduct of all states sets the limits of the empirical which expresses their real behavior. The normative of general principles outlines the political of concrete states. The normative supervises the political and the political is to confirm the normative. Thus, in Aristotle and Marx, the political is to indicate the necessity of the normative, its power of influence and complex character. In turn, the modern as well as contemporary liberals, especially contractarians, completely deprive their normative argument of any empirical confirmation. Thus, they consciously and purposefully give it exclusively a normative dimension. Accordingly, the normative fully replaces the empirical which leads to the elimination of the political. In his concept of public reason, Rawls goes even further and considers the empirical identical with the normative, and consequently the political with the normative. For some of his followers, the irrevocable character of the connection between the normative and the empirical in the notion of public reason is to be guaranteed by elimination of the political. This is to be achieved by the abolition of the state itself and thus the deprivation of the idea of reason of state of any conceptual foundation. However, both in Montesquieu and Burke, there is a strong distinction between what characterizes all states and what distinguishes each of them. Such a distinction results from the difference between what is common to their subjects or citizens and the societies they create, and what distinguishes them from themselves and their societies. At the same time, Montesquieu’s liberalism and Burke’s conservatism offer an equilibrium of the normative and the political which in turn constitutes a doctrinal support for the concept of reason of state beyond the main traditions of western political philosophy.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Contributor:

Scheffler, Tomasz. Red.   Sondel-Cedarmas, Joanna. Red.

Date issued:

2021

Resource Type:

text  
tekst

Detailed Type:

article  
artykuł

Identifier:

oai:repozytorium.uni.wroc.pl:131622   ISSN 0239-6661   ISSN 2300-7249

DOI:

10.19195/2300-7249.43.1.9

Source:

PAd P 101182 II

Language:

pol

Abstract Language :

eng

Relation:

Studia nad Autorytaryzmem i Totalitaryzmem. 2021, 43, nr 1, s. 139-154

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Czasopisma Naukowe w Sieci (CNS)

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