The secret of the free societies
- From: Logos <giocar44ABC@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:33:04 +0200
There is one important difference between the democracies and the
dictatorships.
Usually, the dictatoships are based on a principle which is considered
true, in any case it is obligatory. Examples of these principles are
the existence of a god who said to kill unbelievers, the existence of
a superior race, the existence of a struggle of class between
proletarians and bourgeois, etc. The main characteristics of these
"Truths" it is not that they are really true, but that they are
obligatory. So, if you do not believe in the superiority of the arian
race or the need to fight the bourgeois or in Allah and his prophet,
you risks your life. Also if you change of field, you risk your own
life. From these "Thruts" result ethical regimes which define the
scope of the State and of your own life. They also define the
opinions, the laws, the customs and what each man has to do in any
moment of his life.
On the contrary, the democracies lack of such a principle. In fact,
the ancient Greeks understood that with the gods you can explain
everything, but these explanations are useless for any forecast. On
the contrary, they decided to explain the natural events with natural
factors. They also distinguished between science and opinion and they
placed the faith in the opinion side. Kant also distinguished between
what we are allowed to know (what falls under our senses) and what we
cannot know (the essence of things). So, although men can perfect
their methods and their instruments of research they can know more and
more closer the reality without never be able to know its essence.
So, until proved otherwise, it does not exist any Metaphysical Truth
from which derive the ethics and the praxis. As a consequence, the
State is not provided by any certainty on which organize its
activities and those of its citizens. So everybody is let free to look
for his own way, to pursue the purposes he believes more important or
right and from there arises a fundamental diversity of opinions and of
behaviours.
So, the metaphysical uncertainty is the secret of the free and
democratic societies. It is only by recognizing the value of this
cultural condition that you can understand the free organization of
our societies, the diversity of the opinions, the research of an
equilibrium of the powers in the institutions, the aversion to the
totalitarian systems, the difference of the preferences, of the
attitudes and of the behaviours of the citizens of the open societies,
the richness of their culture, their opening towards the novelties and
of ideas, etc.
This secret is clearer if you confront it with its opposite: the
Metaphysical Certainty, the Revealed Truth, the Ideological Truth,
those compulsory truths which invade the whole public and private
space even in all their hidden places and intimacy, which produce
ethical States always devoted to the conquest of the world and which
suffocate the existences forcing them between militancy and fanatism.
On the contrary, the open societies base themselves on the classical
heritage as for the freedom and the laicism and on the christian
message of love for the fellow men as for the social solidarity.
It is here that the forms of free thought, the need to better know
themselwes and the wealth of opportunities of expression which the fee
societies offer to their citizen meet.
Unfortunately, the close culture typical of the ideologies and of
certain religions keep their followers in the ignorance and in the
fanaticism forcing them to believe in pure stupidities by means of
brain washing and threats. Muslims should understand that until they
do not rebel to their clergy, they always will live in the middleages,
in poverty and in misery.
Logos
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