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Republicanism as a Critical Idiom: Whose, Whom Against, and What for?1* ; Republikanizam kao kritički idiom: čiji, protiv koga, i zbog čega?

Abstract

the aim of the paper is to draw briefly the discourse-theoretical foundations to the republican political theory (section 1), with the issue of slave/slavery as a pivotal concern of social and political life (section 2), and then to chart the most interesting consequences for the contemporary versions of the theory as proposed by the key authors (closing paragraphs of section 2, and section 3). the overarching message of the paper reads that republicanism is founded on a specific view of human nature as ens loquens, or zoon logon echon, that has important implications both empirically and normatively. the third, and final, section of the paper enlists six proposals, or suggestions, to contemporary republicans for the purpose of elucidating, first, the limits of republican theory/practice, and second, its intellectual origins as well as its opposition. Sum- marily, the paper lays emphasis as well on the status of republican language as a critical idiom with its pluralist, highly contextualized, and often program- matic/engaged voices. ; Svrha se ovoga ogleda sastoji u kratkome prezentiranju diskurzivno-teori- jskih zasada republikanske političke teorije (dio 1), sa temom roba/ropstva kao središnjim problemom društvenoga i političkoga života (dio 2), kako bi se potom ocrtale najzanimljivije konsekvence za suvremene verzije te teorije, kako su predložene od strane ključnih autora (završni paragrafi dijela 2, i dio 3). obuhvatna poruka ogleda glasi da se republikanizam temelji na specifičnome poimanju ljudske prirode kao ens loquens, ili zoon logon echon, što sadrži važne implikacije u i empirijskome i normativnome smislu. treći, završni dio ogle- da navodi šest prijedloga, ili sugestija, današnjim republikancima kako bi se, prvo, pojasnile granice republikanske teorije/prakse, i drugo, kako bi se pojas- nili i njezini intelektualni izvori i njezina oporba. Sveukupno, ogled naglašava status republikanskoga jezika također kao kritičkoga idioma sa pluralističkim, izrazito kontekstualnim, i često programatskim/angažiranim glasovima.

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