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Pavel Fobel: Social-philosophical aspects of modernizing society

The system would be communicativelly dynamic, relatively homogenous and balanced to respect the interests of the citizens. From this point of view, it must bear towards the people representatively and legitimately. In today's way of thinking, modern society is characterized by its ability to be flexible in terms of keeping the democratic mechanism alive, and in ensuring the vital co-existence of the sub-systems. Such societies must be able to learn from the experiences of developed counties. Economic, political, ecological and cultural interactions are as important to our new society as they are to the modern societies in any other country in the world. With the aim of considering this system in mind, I mention "Entrance to Europe". This means that these principles are working very well in developed Western European countries. For that reason and because of the risk of striking the roots of social standards in our society, we cannot talk about the flexibility and differential autonomy in sub-systems in western Europe. It is possible, however, to rank this stage in the social category of transition towards modern society. Insufficient, and very often antagonistic information about the real state of our society undermines civil and political activities. Committed economic reform mobilizes social development and influences the social structures in need. As for autonomy, we are unable to wait for the political interference needed to put the principle change of the totalitarian society in motion. Every social system, with its own subsystems, their elements and functions, keeps some of its traditional, genetically inherited culture, its geopolitical theories, the character of its social structures, the national determination of its state and the relationship between the center of society and its environment, etc. As to the views of the people behind the systems, each system and consequently the social societies, keep their own integrative qualities. The interweaving of structural levels and their elements is necessary for its function. We see integrity as a tendency to be whole and in most cases this is preferential. Contrary to the totalitarian concept of a system as a whole, dealing with the interests within the whole society and also the interests of the individual, the new, modern society thinking stresses the concept of systems as a "continuation of events". The system is not something extraneous but, in the process of developing selfconciousness it behaves as self-referring. The repressive side to societies occurs when the system stagnates, when the social projects and aims are made through power, and the real and revolutionary movements are depreciated. 38