Sąmokslas Kaip Politikos Mokslo Ir Liberalios Visuomenės Problema

Jokubaitis, Alvydas

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“…Hobbesas valstybės atsiradimą aiškina pagal dirbtinai sukonstruoto mechanizmo analogiją. Teisingumas jo politinėje teorijoje atsiranda 9 Jokubaitis A., Konservatizmas ir postmodernizmas, Kaunas: Naujasis lankas, 1997, p. 25;Jokubaitis, 2003, p. 90. 10 Jokubaitis, 2003 Ibid., p. 106-107.…”

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Morality and the Nature of Politics

Čelutka

2019

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The aim of the paper is to reconstruct and analyze Alvydas Jokubaitis’s understanding of politics. It is argued that Jokubaitis couples politics with morality in opposition to the liberal project of the autonomy of politics, which seeks to separate these two fields of human activity. According to Jokubaitis, politics is a realm of realization of the spiritual side of human nature. That is the reason why, through morality, he also tries to align politics with other domains of human spirituality, such as religion and metaphysics. What is common to politics, morality, religion, and metaphysics is the sphere of normativity, i.e., that of purposes, principles, and imperatives. At the same time, Jokubaitis attacks those schools of modern thought which interpret politics as corresponding solely to the physical, animal side of human nature. In this regard, positivism and scientism are singled out as the crudest attempts to misconstrue the nature of politics. The paper is based on a conviction that the acknowledgement of the importance of morality allows one to piece together Jokubaitis’s various considerations about the nature and distinctiveness of politics into a coherent whole.

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Section: Konservatizmas Ir Klasikinė Politikos Samprataunclassified

Morality and the Nature of Politics

Čelutka

2019

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“…In parallel, an increasing attention was paid to potential of Lithuanian diaspora and in 2012 “Global Lithuania” program was approved, visualizing the country as a networked state uniting in-country nationals and global diaspora communities (Government of the Republic of Lithuania, 2011). At the same time, some public intellectuals were growing increasingly skeptical about the (lack of) creative and authentic Lithuanian positioning in the EU, diagnosing intellectual lethargy and even forecasting inevitable collapse in the face of a non-existing unifying geopolitical program (Jokubaitis & Lopata, 2014; Radžvilas, 2018).…”

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A Newfound Hub of Global Democracy Promotion: Lithuania Playing to its Strengths

Švedkauskas

2023

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After gaining membership in the European Union and NATO, models portraying Lithuania as a bridge between the East and the West, or a networked state uniting in-country nationals and global diaspora were put forth, while others even forecasted inevitable collapse in the face of a lack of a unified geopolitical program. In the light of this plethora of geopolitical visions, in 2000s Lithuania’s approach to its Eastern neighbors could have been described as “multivectoral.” While Lithuanian leaders outspokenly supported pro-democratic protests and European aspirations of the colored revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, attempts to “restart” relations with Eastern European autocrats also ensued. However, the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea really struck a chord, and the new chapter in the Russian war against Ukraine in February 2022 contributed to consolidation of a clear-cut Lithuanian geopolitical positionality. In the face of Russian aggression, squeezed between the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Russian partner-in-crime Belarus, Lithuania rebranded itself as an outpost of a global democratizing agenda and embraced a discourse of care vis-à-vis repressed Russian and Belarusian civil societies and Ukrainians fighting back for national survival. Echoing historical solidarity narratives of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, new-found Lithuanian agency also aims to reframe Russian aggression as a neo-colonial performance. This piece (1) explores how the unfolding war has constituted a “democratic outpost” identity espoused by the Lithuanian political elite and (2) links these shifts with increased Lithuanian agency in Euro-Atlantic structures and the unexpected attempts to rework itself as a hub of democracy promotion globally. Finally, (3) the contribution problematizes the “outpost Europe” idea by scrutinizing the telling silence on the creeping autocratization in Poland, and the implicit paternalism of the pro-democratic care targeting Russian, Belarusian civil societies, and the Ukrainian state.

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Sąmokslas Kaip Politikos Mokslo Ir Liberalios Visuomenės Problema

Cited by 2 publications

References 12 publications

Morality and the Nature of Politics

Morality and the Nature of Politics

A Newfound Hub of Global Democracy Promotion: Lithuania Playing to its Strengths

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