Secularisation, political modernity and their excessive consequence, the political correctness Cover Image

Secularizare, modernitate politică şi consecinţa lor excesivă, corectitudinea politică
Secularisation, political modernity and their excessive consequence, the political correctness

Author(s): Constantin Ilaş
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: desacralisation; secularisation; political modernity; modernization; political correctness;

Summary/Abstract: Desacralisation as eviction of magic and sacral from nature and existence led to secularisation, namely to the abandon of the God and reference to divinity as source of authority and legitimacy of laws, the later one getting into exclusive assignment of the man. The political modernization means the change of the source of authority and legitimacy of laws. Also secularisation means the separation of Church and State regarding politics, public policies and decisions. One of the excessive consequences of the political modern age, as ”progress into equalisation of conditions”, is the ideology of political correctness. This exploits the development of the public consent, meaning authority, in a liberal democracy, with the purpose of improving and changing the institutions and self identities spread in social reality. But it turns the offences of opinion into social justice through taboos which in fact inhibit critical thinking and social critique.

  • Issue Year: VII/2019
  • Issue No: 1(23)
  • Page Range: 155-168
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian