Demokracja w granicach ryzyka
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2010
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Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM
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As a permanently imperfect system, democracy requires continuous improvement of its
deficient structures and responses to its imbalanced developmental dynamics. Freedom ensures
its permanent dynamics as people, who constantly make various choices, arrive at different results, which permanently differentiates their interests. Freedom is a compromise, and
the whole strategy of development is also a strategy of compromise. The definition of justice
developed by Kant provides for a model of society whose freedom brings about justice. A permanently
dynamic system that is bound to develop has to bear a constant risk, as everybody
needs to keep analyzing their situation in order to make adequate and optimum decisions. This
constantly produces new situations that require new ideas. The shortage of new ideas poses
a permanent obstacle on the path to development and requires constant improvement in order
to take advantage of one’s reason and experience; this necessitates incessant learning and risk
taking. Opportunity always exists, yet success only comes to the one able to take risks and face
liability. We need to beware of illusion and populism that lead us directly to collectivism,
which poses a permanent and most serious threat.
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Przegląd Politologiczny, 2010, nr 1, s. 17-24.
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1426-8876