Conference paper
Political and spiritual pluralism in Croatia
Zvonko Lerotić
Abstract
The author emphasizes how multi-party system, as the first
form the political pluralism in Croatia, was the strong prime-mover
of the national and anti-communistic spirit in Croatia at the end of
80s and at the beginning of 90s. It, without regard to formation of
the new political parties, appeared as the real national movement
that led to the rotation of communist authorities and, at the end, to
Croatian independence, and its international recognition. Because
of its political nature, as the common theory of democracy of
western societies, pluralism is an independent value which can not
be instrumentally conditioned neither by state nor by modern
plutocracy.
But, nationalism that have been lasting after the period of
liberation of the country, tend to make political and spiritual
pluralism a synhronized part of a strong collective force as it is a
young nation-state. Spiritual people start to loose their identity but
collectivity and power, homogeneity and autocracy are getting to be
a new disposition of spirituality.
The author writes how in the clash of power and authority, in
such circumstances, drama of spiritual life grows. The human
spirit that seeks the way to this-wordly and eternal sense, becomes
the part of power that closes its way for cognition and freedom of
consience.
The author concludes, then, the real spirituality remains
outside of the nation and authority, these two, perhaps the
strongest powers of this world. It remains by itself, isolated,
sometimes foresees feelings of its emptiness and rejection. To the
spiritual estate remains only the sphere of spirituality, remains the
world of transcendence, morality and wisdom as a gift that could
be offerded to the people in good temper. So, this means that today
Croatian spirituality is getting to be part of social and spiritual
plurality. From the point of political theory, spirituality is restituted
as ali the other, in the society, particular sphere of the society.
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Hrčak ID:
51424
URI
Publication date:
21.1.1997.
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