POLITICAL GUILT AND RESPONSIBILITY - RETURNING TO THE REFLECTION OF K. JASPERS AND H. ARENDT ON GERMAN FASCISM (Wina polityczna i odpowiedzialnosc - powracajac do refleksji K. Jaspersa i H. Arendt o faszyzmie niemieckim.)

• Authors: Piekarski Romuald M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The issue of guilt and political responsibility is an universal one. Do fascism and communism belong irretrievably to the past? Are enslaving masses and conquest of the entire societies over? Have the sources of totalitarianism been drained? Has humanity became resistant to them? We still need to answer these questions. In this article the author is recalling chosen analysis of Karl Jaspers and Hannah Arendt on the responsibility for the Nazism. The question of responsibility and guilt for the Nazi totalitarianism is not purely historical, but indirectly refers to current and future events and political decisions, for populist manipulation of the masses, incapable of active citizenship has changed its form, but the same, world has not yet created a new order resistant to similar dangers.

Keywords

EN

POLITICAL GUILT; POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Spółdzielczy Instytut Naukowy G. Bierecki sp.j.
• Journal: Pieniądze i Więź
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1(46)
• Pages: 7-22
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Piekarski Romuald M.

• Romuald Piekarski, Uniwersytet Gdanski, Wydzial Nauk Spolecznych, Instytyt Filozofii Socjologii i Dziennikarstwa, Zaklad Filozofii Wspolczesnej, ul. Bielanska 5, 80-851 Gdansk, Poland

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CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08091