| Popis: |
This work is intent on the problem of religious elements present in modem political systems. Its thesis is based on a presumption that religion and its consequences, is still one of the main sources of thinking even in such secularized area as the political space. I assume that the religious elements are present in ideologies as expressions of believe and longing for perfection, which can be reached in the frame of future man existence. That's why the ideologies are called secular religions, because they place the man's salvation to existing people's world, when they try to invent the best - even perfect - systems of social order and policy. That means that they secularize purposes to which the traditional religions (like for example Christianity) try to reach. Ideologies transfer these purposes, to which they refer to their values, to this world, which people recognize as real. It means that they do them "imanent." One of examples of the group of secular religions is the "civil religion" which refers to citizens of a state concentrated to entity of the "People" as to the authority which should decide on everything - values, principles of the society and policy through which the society should be saved (or better redeemed). The base of this decision is in the consensus resulted in a united "general will" of... |
