PARADOKSI LIBERALIZMA
THE PARADOXES OF LIBERALISM

Summary/Abstract: In contemporary speech, the phrases liberal democracy and democratic liberalism are frequently used. Both originally belong to political philosophy, but are mainly included in the modular language of contemporary journalism and political populism. They have lost the determinations that the fields of meaning assign to their building blocks. Today, these phrases are plastic, so they mean both a lot and a little. If we start from the usual understanding that liberalism is first of all a political philosophy originally shaped as a response of the enlightened during the eighteenth century to the growing power of modern ethno-national states in which the free individual is not the basis of order, the authorities of such states claimed the right to dispose of means of coercion over their subjects within their borders in accordance with the unquestionable authority of the state. The aforementioned retaliation meant in the broadest sense advocating for the conditional application of political power: the government justifies its only service to the protection and expansion of the freedom of the individual, his unquestionable property and personal determination.

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