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Dobri ljudi, dobri odnosi, za dobar život i dobro društvo
Good People, Good Relations, for Good Life and Good Society

Author(s): Kiril Temkov
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: democracy as lifestyle; ochlocracy; ethics

Summary/Abstract: Democracy is not only a mechanism of political decision-making, but is also a lifestyle. That is why democracy does not represent only politics oriented to an open society; rather, it represents the development of good life and good society with virtues and worthy goals. This can only be done by good people, well-developed autonomous individuals, who have the desire to live freely, rightly, well and creatively. Only in democracy is it possible to reach this genuine and high human aspiration, in the same way that only mature individuals, with their lives and decisions, can realise true democracy (and not ochlocracy) and human freedom (meaningful values and meaningful lives, and not imaginary chaotic relations). Ethics is necessary for democracy, and can be realised universally only in a democratic society. Searching for the good expresses the inner dimension of freedom, in the same way that today’s ethical education points to the right path of freedom and democracy.

  • Issue Year: 24/2004
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 89-95
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Croatian