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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21464/sp31110

Three Issues on Cosmopolitan Democracy: Modernity, Recognition, Secularism

Hasnija Ilazi orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-9514-0441 ; University of Prishtina, Faculty of Philosophy, Mother Theresa street, XK–10000 Prishtina


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Abstract

This paper reflects on three relevant principles of democracy which are inherent to the contemporary society. These principles are modernity, the politics of recognition, and secularism. The main question is concerned with the sustainability of these principles as the grounds for the foundation of cosmopolitan democracy, and further influence on the democratization of the human world. This paper (i) examines a relationship between modernization and democracy through the perspective of multiple modernities as a possibility for the extension of democracy over the non-democratic parts of the world; (ii) analyzes politics of recognition as a grounds for cultural coexistence and political pluralism and (iii) reflects on the issue of a) how the idea of secularism if/how the idea of secularism treats the idea of religiousness and vice versa, b) how much is secularism secular (the issue of public versus private sphere), and c) can secularism remain to be the basic principle of (cosmopolitan) democracy.

Keywords

cosmopolitan democracy; democracy principles; modernity; recognition; secularism; utopia

Hrčak ID:

179911

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/179911

Publication date:

5.9.2016.

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