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Pavel Fobel: Social-philosophical aspects of modernizing society

PAVEL FOBEL SOCIAL-PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF MODERNIZING SOCIETY SUMMARY: (Social-philosophical aspects of modernizing society

) The contemporary trend in developing a society can be characterized as a modernizing process. Explicit contemplation of this question becomes the foundation for dichotomical solving of traditional and modern society. Totalitarian society differs from modern society in systematic characteristics. The actual state of our society can be defined as modern or post-modern but definitely post-totalitarian, transformative, gradually achieving the profile of a modern society. The understanding of functional mechanisms and the character of social changes is based on the idea of civil, open society. Principles and practical sense appear in a question of dialectics of national and civil principle and culturalhistorical specifics. The solving of ethnic problems takes the dominant position in creating a modern, civil society. Socio-philosophical views are the necessary stinting point in searching for convenient methodological orientation, the need for a state society, identity and the definition of specifics and alternatives during its development. The last two years in the development of our society have brought about not only changes in its structure, but also new efforts to express these changes in a socio-philosophical way. Theoretical scientific discussions in the C.S.F.R., as well as consultations with foreign theoreticians have helped to bring about an understanding of the mechanisms behind this transformation into a new, modern society. From a theoretical point of view, there are now two main problems to be solved: finding potential models for the transformation of our society and the methodological problem of establishing a convenient identity for the new state. The totalitarian regimes' demise in Eastern Europe and their transformation into new, more or less democratic social societies, based on market economies led, in theory, to fundamental new social and philosophical analyses, devoid of any unilateral methodological processes. 35