On the Direction of Critical Policy

Politics needs not only internal rationality and orderliness of law, which should be characterised by coherence of argumentation, but also – as urgently as ever – ethos, this carrier of values that bring order to human communication, so much underestimated today, yet influencing political phenomena and processes, objective theory. Rationality and morality are rooted in society as a whole. The pursuit of full political power, its maximization by the winning parties, cannot be the main goal. Politicians should also take into account the dignity of human beings and society. The way to reconcile the two goals is shown by systemic personalism. This is a different approach in the understanding of politics and the science of politics as acting in the interests of a common society. Nowadays, there is no agreement on the essence of politics, there is no recognition of its ethical dimension. Fashionable relativism and the increasing fragmentation of political science make it impossible to understand the increasingly dynamic and vast field of politics.