Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1993. Sectio Philosophica.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 21)

Pavel Fobel: Social-philosophical aspects of modernizing society

The civic society is not perfect, nor is it immune from conflicts. As the Slovak sociologist J. Stena

7 states, without these signs, the civic society would have to control the social technology for solving conflicts and antistatements, in its own way and by developing civic culture. The basic symptom, according to R. Dahrendorf is "creative chaos" and this provokes powerful structures and modifies its own relationship with the citizen. The way that countries of former socialist and communist orientation have been setting out on their own way is by a transformation to a reformed and civic society. Receiving the Document of civic rights and freedom forms the base for harmony in national and civic societies through definite national differentiation and crystalization of interests. In Western European countries "the citizens' revival" has been in existence since the earliest times of enlinghtenment, when this society was formed as a national formation because of federal frustration. In Bohemia and Slovakia the national aspect was accented more to the detriment of the civic one and so the revival was cut out of the European context. After the renovation of the Hungarian statesmanship in the second half of the nineteenth century the formation of civic society was laid down in a more Slovakian medium, that is Hungarian politicians did not make the effort to build an educational system or any sort of cultural institutions for the use of Slovak civilians. These problems concern the return to the subjectivity facilitating the reconstruction of democracy and establishing a base for it. By the turn of the century the Slovak ethnic community was fighting for its revival. The revitalization of civic society represents many problems during the development of a separate Slovak society. The modernization of cultural and social spheres is not enough to solve economic and political problems. Though the question of the revitalization of civic society is discussed in our country, the accompanying problems remain unsolved. Subjectivity does not exist in opposition to economics or equality. At the time of natural law this system was based very much on religion, at present it is more an ethical principle. Naturally, the Slovak nation had to leave sovereign law in its own complicated history, although in this way, its own national identity has been darkened in modern Europe in the eyes of other civilized societies. Transformative changes in our society will sound expressive if we take them in the context of post-communist Europe. A. Touraine

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