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FREEDOM-LOVING TRADITION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE - THOUGHTS ON LIBERALISM AND FREEDOM IN 19th CENTURY EASTERN EUROPE
Detlef Jena
; Sveučilište Jena, Jena
Sažetak
ln the article the author analyzes particularities of development of
mutual national, freedom-loving and democratic thought and action
in Central and Eastern Europe with regard to different origins
and development of these ideas in the European West. Having in
mind the current processes of transformation aimed at pluralism
and market economy in the former socialist countries, the elaboration
of liberal tradition is indeed of existential significance for
Europe. The awareness about freedom-loving and liberal values,
although weak and disguised, belongs among the fundamental
elements of every modern industrial society, ln this particular case
liberal-value conceptions do not grow from an inadequate attempt
to schematicaily reconstruct ideal Western-European images. Only
by creating specific national liberal traditions and by their original
and autonomous entrance into joint European processes can the
image of the European phenomenon of liberalism be drawn today.
The freedom-loving and liberal tradition in circumstances of
national emancipation of Eastern-European peoples warns that
democracy must be more than a majorization of minorities, and
that democratic emancipation should not be postponed for an
indefinite period of time because of national self-determination
and self-confirmation processes.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
32429
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.3.1995.
Posjeta: 1.588 *