Conference paper
European Constitution: A Move from the Theological Legitimation of Political Regime
Davor Rodin
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author’s argument is that Europe must renounce Kant’s universalism and
adopt political means in resolving its permanently conflictual situations. In that
way it is to construct its new identity that stems neither from the divergent past of
its members nor from their divergent perceptions of the future, but is being built
in the politically active present. The European Union as a community sui generis
is founded on a paradox. Namely, it does not grow from its familiar historical
identity, but is growing into it by permanently resolving the conflictual situations
of the state of nature by political means. That paradoxical political project may be
subscribed to only politically: mythologies, religions, ideologies and metaphysics
would, as it were, create a state of nature but only at a higher cultural level.
Keywords
Europe; Kant; political means; state of nature; universalism; Constitution
Hrčak ID:
21146
URI
Publication date:
25.8.2005.
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