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Social Harmfulness of Authoritarian Political Violence
Social Harmfulness of Authoritarian Political Violence

Author(s): Józef Pruchniak, Zdzisław Długosz
Subject(s): Security and defense
Published by: Wyższa Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego i Indywidualnego “Apeiron” w Krakowie
Keywords: manipulation; lying; authoritarianism; consent; social ignorance

Summary/Abstract: In the political authoritarian reality, the use of the term “truth” seeks only verifiability for its justification. It will also make it possible to distort human cognitive processes and their political consequences, resulting from its translation into freedom of choice. Therefore, the issue of understanding as the foundation of the social world, which is a derivative of the universal species consciousness and the phenomena conditioned by this consciousness, becomes of fundamental importance. The experience of science shows that in deliberations on awareness of pregnancy, a popular view is often confused with identity and causality. In the conditions of political violence, it consists in “mixing” consciousness with what is not consciousness, but conditions it, the best example of which is the strength of personality. The main goal of the study is an attempt to answer and at the same time present an analytical view of the problem of political violence and the political nature of crime. It was assumed that the dominant role in authoritarianism is played by lies and their use is reduced to employing them in the process of manipulation, where consciously selected universals derived from the ontological understanding of truth are used to shape the desired social consciousness. In this way, the scientific nature of the study is also an element of social education with the use of the popular way of fighting “evil”, enabling its understanding on the basis of the principles of not only criminal and material cognition.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 43
  • Page Range: 92-110
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English