THE STORM OF POSTMODERNITY. PRESERVING THE CIVIC SPIRIT, THE PERFECT MORALITY AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE COMMON GOOD?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7391455Keywords:
civil society, civic interest, civic commitment, civic spirit, civic virtue, common good, community, constitutive rules, institutional succes, moral trust, social understanding, toleranceAbstract
The Storm of Postmodernity. Preserving the Civic Spirit, the Perfect Morality and The Consciousness of the Common Good?
According to Alexis de Tocqueville „in democratic countries the science of association is the mother science; the progress of all the others depends on the progress of that one. Sentiments and ideas renew themselves, the heart is enlarged, and the human mind is developed only by the reciprocal action of men upon one another”. Robert Putnam demonstrated that „a democratic government is strengthened not weakened” by cohabitation with a „strong civil society”. But what is a civil strong society? What means a civic person? What is a civic life? What are civic actions? What is civic interest? It is true that in our time the most important five civic responsabilities are: voting, staying informed, community involvement, practicing tolerance, passing it on? Can the democratic process acquire axiological qualities and valences separated from historical conditions and the human/social capital conditioned in its historical turn?
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