🌐 If you look at human history, as a rule, political actions are explained by the desire to achieve the most good for the largest number of people.
But the concepts of “the good” have always been different. There is the salvation of the soul with the help of true faith, there is freedom, including freedom of religion, and there is simple prosperity, and protection from enemies, and much, much more.
Recently, the mainstream interpretation of the good, developed mainly in the so-called Western countries, but, of course, not only there, is based on humanistic values associated with human rights and the opposition of democracy to authoritarianism and/or totalitarianism.
In a democracy, people are supposed to make their own decisions, find a balance of interests, live in a legal system that protects everyone, and in general their quality of life improves more or less uniformly. So everyone gets better and better. Authoritarianism, according to the same mainstream zeitgeist, limits people, makes them victims of arbitrariness, toys in the hands of the authorities. In this sense, the goal of historical development is the establishment of democracy everywhere.
Of course, this approach greatly oversimplifies reality. A correct system of coordinates, a system of terms is needed, which — when discussing what is happening in the world — we will understand it approximately the same way, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/chairman-speech/times-of-great-confusion/
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But the concepts of “the good” have always been different. There is the salvation of the soul with the help of true faith, there is freedom, including freedom of religion, and there is simple prosperity, and protection from enemies, and much, much more.
Recently, the mainstream interpretation of the good, developed mainly in the so-called Western countries, but, of course, not only there, is based on humanistic values associated with human rights and the opposition of democracy to authoritarianism and/or totalitarianism.
In a democracy, people are supposed to make their own decisions, find a balance of interests, live in a legal system that protects everyone, and in general their quality of life improves more or less uniformly. So everyone gets better and better. Authoritarianism, according to the same mainstream zeitgeist, limits people, makes them victims of arbitrariness, toys in the hands of the authorities. In this sense, the goal of historical development is the establishment of democracy everywhere.
Of course, this approach greatly oversimplifies reality. A correct system of coordinates, a system of terms is needed, which — when discussing what is happening in the world — we will understand it approximately the same way, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/chairman-speech/times-of-great-confusion/
#valdaiclub #WorldOrder #democracy #authoritarianism
@valdai_club
Valdai Club
Times of Great Confusion: On the Concepts by Which We Comprehend the World
A correct system of coordinates, a system of terms is needed, which — when discussing what is happening in the world — we will understand it approximately the same way, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.