SLOBODARSKE TRADICIJE U SREDNJOJ I ISTOČNOJ EUROPI MISLI O LIBERALIZMU I SLOBODI U ISTOČNOJ EUROPI U 19. STOLJEĆU
FREEDOM-LOVING TRADITION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE - THOUGHTS ON LIBERALISM AND FREEDOM IN 19th CENTURY EASTERN EUROPE

Summary/Abstract: ln the article the author analyzes particularities of development of mutual national, freedom-loving and democratic thought and action in Central and Eastern Europe with regard to different origins and development of these ideas in the European West. Having in mind the current processes of transformation aimed at pluralism and market economy in the former socialist countries, the elaboration of liberal tradition is indeed of existential significance for Europe. The awareness about freedom-loving and liberal values, although weak and disguised, belongs among the fundamental elements of every modern industrial society, ln this particular case liberal-value conceptions do not grow from an inadequate attempt to schematicaily reconstruct ideal Western-European images. Only by creating specific national liberal traditions and by their original and autonomous entrance into joint European processes can the image of the European phenomenon of liberalism be drawn today.

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