Imperium jako droga Rosji ku europeizacji
Empire as a Russian way towards Europeanization

Summary/Abstract: The revival of imperial super national life can be seen in the principles of the European Union. It is not by chancethat Europe became what it is today with the help of the imperial idea and collapsed in the epoch of (growing)nationalism. The author believes that the idea of empire is a European idea. Europe has many ideas. The ideaof empire is one of them and not the worst. If despotism drives people in uniformed herds, to try to overcome theirprimitive cruelty, empires tried to bring young and still wild people into a legal field, accustomed to certain civilizednorms of behavior. Differently, the empire is the political and social structural formation historically intendedfor introduction in sub legislative and civilized space for people of different nations and beliefs. In the RomanEmpire there was an idea of law which an emperor also followed, it is not by chance that the best developed codeof civil law is that of the Emperor Justinian. In despotism a lord is above the laws, he “accepts”, he does not submitto it. Certainly, the imperial idea is not something universal, there is a panacea assisting the “healthy” wayof becoming mankind (basically impossible), otherwise such an empire would have been created once and forever.The journey from the birth to the destruction of the Russian Empire ran almost two centuries in an antagonismof different points of view – Russian Church and Russian State, Russian thinkers and writers solving a problemof necessity and solitariness of the imperial beginning for Russia.

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