Demokratijos Tapatumo Problema: Mažuma Vs Dauguma
The Problem of the Identity of Democracy: Minority vs. Majority

Summary/Abstract: The doubtless role of democracy in relation to the modern idea of Western civilization referring to both it‘s ideology and societal institutions, as most probably the best way of organizing the modern society, can not eliminate the on-going process of creating the identity of democracy and reflecting upon it, that started from it‘s earliest settlements in Ancient Greece and lasting up to the present day. This article tries to bring together certain principles serving as the theoretical background of modern mass as well as antique democracy and at the same time being the core basis of democracy as such. Making an attempt to find out major historical changes and conditions having shaped the current state of democracy is another important thing of this reflection. Even though liberal democracy has successfully performed the shift of political power from the ensured category to the task category, it doesn‘t change the „inherent“principles and methods of ruling the society and forming it‘s political authority, – the principle of an active, ruling and powerful minority vs. a ruled, passive and powerless majority is to be considered one of the most important among them.

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