POLITICS AND MORALITY IN SLOBODAN JOVANOVIĆ`S THEORY OF STATE Cover Image

ПОЛИТИКА И МОРАЛ У ТЕОРИЈИ ДРЖАВЕ СЛОБОДАНА ЈОВАНОВИЋА
POLITICS AND MORALITY IN SLOBODAN JOVANOVIĆ`S THEORY OF STATE

Author(s): Boris Z. Milosavljević
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Political Theory, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: State; Politics; State interest; Machiavellianism; Morality; State Personality;

Summary/Abstract: The core of Slobodan Jovanović’s reflections is the theory of state, which ties his complete oeuvre into a single system framework. This is why the issues he dealt with, including considerations of the relations between politics and morality, are closely or loosely connected to his theory of state. This paper explores possible solutions to the contradictory Machiavellian and Platonist viewpoints of state put forward in Jovanović’s scholarship. State organ acts morally if executing the will of a state, not its own or any other will alien to the state. With that, the state limits itself for its own interests by separation of power and passage of laws, which provides creation of free community necessary for reinforcement of morality in the state.

  • Issue Year: 59/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 273-293
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian