Review article
Norberto Bobbio on democracy between freedom and equality
Dan Đaković
Abstract
The author observes democracy from the christian point of view but
through the texts of a liberal-socialist philosopher and lawyer — Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004). The article presents tensions and divisions in democracy as issue of opposed requirements of freedom and equality, individualism and collectivism, liberalism and socialism, the left and the right. Finally, the article shows that the value of democracy is in surpassing of all exclusivisms. Democracy enables conflicts and confrontations without blood, victory without losers.
In this process the important role can take the principles of solidarity, subsidiarity and common (public) good.
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22106
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Publication date:
22.7.2007.
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