Aporije liberalne i demokratske političke filozofije
Aporia of Liberal and Democratic Political Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: Despite the efforts to present democracy as the most appropriate and almost ideal system, the founders of the philosophy of politics and their contemporaries already felt the need to shed greater critical light on the apories of democracy in its genuine and evolutionary antinomy. They understood that the rule of law inevitably becomes the representative of the people, which hides the imminent danger of every democracy to turn into the rule of majority over the minority and the rule of the minority into the forced rule of the opinion. It is the same with the theoretical proponents of liberal political philosophy which indicated that this new concept of state in synergy with the emancipated character of the democracy leaves as its inheritance the great achievement in guaranteeing the freedom of individuals from the voluntarism of the government and politics. They also implicitly warn about the two potential tinder boxes of the subsequent abuse of liberalism. Those constructive weaknesses of liberalism are in the negative understanding of human freedom and the reduction of confirmed forms of human nature which entails the fulfillment of material, proprietary and economic interest leading inevitably to anthropological solipsism. This paper is not only dedicated to the history of the idea of democracy but to neuralgic and ontological elements of these two political phenomena, that is to possible deformities of certain potentially negative aspects of liberal democratic doctrine, which in the con-temporary global era experienced its emanation.

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