Demokracja wobec wartości

Abstract

The title of my article touches on the problem of a relationship between the system of democracy and the sphere of values. Some of the questions that arise instantly are: What democracy do we refer to? What values are taken into consideration? How are they understood? Thus, an attempt has been made to define in two points the understanding of democracy and values as fundamental notional categories of the text. The third point deals with relationships between them and the epilogue poses some futurological predictions. Such an approach allows me to explain the complex matter of the theory of democracy as well as of the theory of values in general. Democracy as a formal creation requires complementary qualitative values and to some extent makes them its foundation. However, in contemporary democracy it is easy to notice certain mechanisms of value relativization. Those mechanisms are generated by tolerance and fear of fundamentalism. It seems, however, that nihilism will not be the future of democratic societies so we may look forward to the future with some optimism.