Lukasz Perlikowski

Nicolaus Copernicus University | umk · Department of Politics Theory

Tekst jest poświęcony problematyce związanej z kategorią stabilności politycznej. Celem głównym jest ustalenie zakresu semantycznego pojęcia stabilizowania na gruncie teorii polityki. Wywód został oparty na koncepcji decyzjonizmu Carla Schmitta oraz na analizie systemowej. W tekście zastosowano autorski podział analityczny na przypadki: a) destabil...

Our paper revisits the work of Samuel Finer and David Easton in order to establish a firmer grasp on the problem of political stability within a given state or regime. We suggest that Finer’s approach to the problem of coercion–extraction is not wholly incompatible with Easton’s political system approach (as modified by Gabriel Almond). By combinin...

The article concerns the stability of a specific political system based on the so-called non--codified constitution, which was formed in the State of Israel. The main goal is to present and characterise the systemic position of the Supreme Court in this country and, above all, the competences of this body in the field of maintaining political stabi...

The investigations of this paper revolve around the concept of stability. We would like to make several analytical distinctions which would allow us to differentiate between various concepts of stability. The background of our work is the theory of political change supported by examples of this kind presented by Plato, Polybius, James Harrington, J...

In this paper I would like to present an interpretation of David Hume’s political theory. Therefore, a method of investigation can be recognized as hermeneutical one. Main threads which I would like to emphasize are: concept of stability, distribution of power, role of an opinion in political dimension and a conservative attitude toward a change. I...

The author aims to explain the notion of rationality as an analytical tool. The main thesis is that rationality must be understood as a set of local rules. As rationality occurs in many cases, one can talk about pluralism of rationality. However, the author criticises the popular interpretation of ‘local rationality’ (Gianni Vattimo). He refers to...

Abstrakt The purpose of the article is to answer the question: Is libertarianism a political theory? As political theory we recognize such theory, which consider the issue of stability as the subject of investigations. There are three possible questions about political order: 1) what shape should it take; 2) how to achieve it? 3) how to maintain i...

Main goal of this article is to elaborate basic elements of John Rawls’s theory of deliberative democracy. Main issues are: justice as fairness, problem of stability, idea of overlapping consensus, two moral powers and public reason. We also try to shed some light on the critics of Rawls’s ideas like: John M. Finnis, Herbert L. A. Hart and Michael...

Abstrakt The revival of philosophical and political reflection, dating from the publication of the works of John Rawls called Theory of Justice (1971), is associated with significant changes in the political and legal discourse, whose consequences are visible even today. So, regardless of the shallowness or depth of data concepts and political att...

Abstrakt In the present paper we investigate, from the politico-philosophical point of view, the inconsistencies of legal solutions concerning reproductive freedom that are present in various jurisdictions in the civilised world. We hypothesise that an attempt to introduce into legal systems such institutions as preconception harm, prenatal harm o...

Abstrakt The main purpose of this article is to describe and elaborate an axiology of new political movement named bioluddism or bioconservatism. We are going to focus on the right wing of biolludism, which embraces ideas and theories such authors as John Kass, Francis Fukuyama and Michael Sandel. The background of our work is biopolitical litigat...