A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: ARISTOTELIAN SUBSIDIARITY VERSUS KANTIAN UNIVERSALISM.
This paper aims to show how contemporary Aristotelian political philosophy can be utilised in our reflections on European integration. It argues that changes in international relations after the end of the Cold War and a growing cultural divide between Europe and the US makes Europe's Western identi...
| Publicado en: | Problems / Problemos Vol. 77; pp. 92 - 105 |
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Vilnius University
2010
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=49804550&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 49804550 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13921126 3D4C jtl: Problems / Problemos issn: 13921126 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2010 vid: 77 pid: 16037 pub: Vilnius University artinfo: ui: 49804550 10.15388/Problemos.2010.0.1898 ppf: 92 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 579KB tig: atl: A PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: ARISTOTELIAN SUBSIDIARITY VERSUS KANTIAN UNIVERSALISM. aug: au: Bielskis, Andrius affil: Mykolas Romeris Universitety Department of Political Sciences, Ateities str. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania su: Political philosophy European integration International relations Philosophy Ethics European Union sug: subj: Political philosophy European integration International relations Philosophy Ethics European Union keyword: Aristotelian philosophy Kant modernity post-modernity subsidiarity aristotelinė filosofija Europos integracija Kantas modernybė postmodernybė subsidiarumas ab: This paper aims to show how contemporary Aristotelian political philosophy can be utilised in our reflections on European integration. It argues that changes in international relations after the end of the Cold War and a growing cultural divide between Europe and the US makes Europe's Western identity untenable. Through a brief philosophical sketch of the history of 'the West' it argues that Europe needs to return to its European rather than Western roots. The philosophical emphasis on national cultures and local identities, which is also found at the heart of the European Union in the form of the notion of subsidiarity, links European cultural and political integration to Aristotelian philosophy. The paper argues that the principle of subsidiarity can be seen both as the political as well as ethical principle of European integration. Subsidiarity is understood in terms of Aristotle's teleological ethics which emphasises the importance of culture and culturally embodied human ends and is juxtaposed to Kant's deontology. The essay argues that the Kantian notion of the public and Kant's understanding of morality gives rise to the modern one-sided account of the political. Straipsnyje siekiama parodyti, kaip šiuolaikinė aristotelinė politinė filosofija gali padėti reflektuoti Europos integraciją. Teigiama, kad Europos vakarietiška tapatybė pokyčių tarptautiniuose santykiuose po šaltojo karo pabaigos ir augančių kultūrinių Europos ir JAV skirtumų kontekste vis labiau praranda prasmę. Atlikus trumpą filosofinės „Vakarų" sąvokos istorijos analizę teigiama, kad Europai yra tikslingiau puoselėti savo europietišką, o ne „vakarietišką" tapatybę. Filosofiškai pabrėžiant nacionalinių kultūrų ir vietinių (kultūrinių) tapatybių svarbą, Europos kultūrinę ir politinę integraciją galima apmąstyti ir susieti su aristoteline filosofija. Teigiama, jog subsidiarumo principas yra ne tik politinis, bet ir etinis unikalios Eeuropos integracijos principas. Straipsnyje subsidiarumas aptariamas pasitelkiant Arsitotelio teleologinę etiką, pabrėžiant jai būdingą kultūros ir kultūriškai įkūnytų žmogaus tikslų svarbą. Taip suprastas subsidiarumas iškyla kaip priešingas kantiškai deontologijai, teigiant, jog kantiška moralės samprata paskatina vienpusišką modernią politiškumo sampratą. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Problems / Problemos is the property of Vilnius University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Problems / Problemos holder: Vilnius University dt: @attributes: year: 2010 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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