Ευταξία και αυτονομία στην πολιτική και την κοινωνική θεωρία

Abstract

This article analyses the problem of order in the work of Hobbes, as well as the critique which his views were submitted to by Parsons, who counter-pro- posed to consider the normative system (“cultural tradition”) as the framework within which order can be founded. Thus Parsons approach itself stems from the sociological tradition which, in conceptualising order, employs an organic view. From a certain standpoint, the latter is also a characteristic of the approaches developed in the field of political theory. However, this organic conception, precisely because it lies within the “Universe of Modernity”, is differentiated insofar as it integrates an idea of autonomy based on the “metaphysics of the subject”, which to the extent that it stipulates a self- sufficient individuality, is closely linked to the “ethical-normative crisis of Modernity”. At this point, the possibility to surpass the crisis is examined, as well as the possibility of founding order upon a non metaphysical humanism through the critical evaluation of tradition, in the framework of which, and with it as intermediate, the autonomy of the subject may be saved.