Eastern Europe's unfinished business

East European Politics and Societies

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 345-352

  Ramet, Sabrina P ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/0888325499013002015     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Sabrina P. Ramet, Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997); and Sabrina P. Ramet, "Liberalizam, Moral i društveni poredak: Slučaj korumpiranog populističkog pluralizma u Hrvatskoj," in Erasmus (Zagreb) 24 (May 1998).
2. Sabrina P. Ramet, Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997); and Sabrina P. Ramet, "Liberalizam, Moral i društveni poredak: Slučaj korumpiranog populističkog pluralizma u Hrvatskoj," in Erasmus (Zagreb) 24 (May 1998).
3. See especially John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (New York: Mentor Books, 1965). See, also, Lloyd L. Weinreb, "Natural Law and Rights," in Robert P. George, ed., Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992); and L. W. Sumner, The Moral Foundation of Rights (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).
4. See especially John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (New York: Mentor Books, 1965). See, also, Lloyd L. Weinreb, "Natural Law and Rights," in Robert P. George, ed., Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992); and L. W. Sumner, The Moral Foundation of Rights (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).
5. See especially John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (New York: Mentor Books, 1965). See, also, Lloyd L. Weinreb, "Natural Law and Rights," in Robert P. George, ed., Natural Law Theory: Contemporary Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992); and L. W. Sumner, The Moral Foundation of Rights (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).
6. See, for example, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Michael Oakeshott (New York: Collier Books, 1962), Part II, chap. 18, 134-41; and Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England, ed. Joseph Cropsey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), 69-72.
7. See, for example, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. Michael Oakeshott (New York: Collier Books, 1962), Part II, chap. 18, 134-41; and Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England, ed. Joseph Cropsey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971), 69-72.
8. Locke, Two Treatises, 2nd treat., para. 199-210, 446-53.
9. J. S. Mill, On Liberty and other writings, ed. Stefan Collini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), chap. 5, 110-12.
10. See, for example, The Independent (London), reprinted in The Daily Yomiuri, 23 August 1998, 9.
11. See, for example, The Independent (London), reprinted in The Daily Yomiuri, 23 August 1998, 9.
12. Anneli Ute Gabanyi, Systemwechsel in Rumänien: Von der Revolution zur Transformation (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1998), 236.
13. See discussion in Sabrina P. Ramet, Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to Uprising in Kosovë, 3rd ed. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, forthcoming in autumn 1999), epilogue.
14. Further details in ibid.
15. Mill, On Liberty, chap. 1, p. 10, 16-20; Joseph Raz, "Autonomy, Toleration, and the Harm Principle," in Susan Mendus, ed., Justifying Toleration: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 157, 165; and John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), xxiv-xxvi.
16. Mill, On Liberty, chap. 1, p. 10, 16-20; Joseph Raz, "Autonomy, Toleration, and the Harm Principle," in Susan Mendus, ed., Justifying Toleration: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 157, 165; and John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), xxiv-xxvi.
17. Mill, On Liberty, chap. 1, p. 10, 16-20; Joseph Raz, "Autonomy, Toleration, and the Harm Principle," in Susan Mendus, ed., Justifying Toleration: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 157, 165; and John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), xxiv-xxvi.
18. The distinction is explained in Ramet, Whose Democracy, chap. 3.
19. For a classic warning against the "tyranny of the majority," see Mill, On Liberty, chap. 1, 8.
20. Tatjana Pavlović, "Women in Croatia: Feminists, Nationalists, and Homosexuals," in Sabrina P. Ramet, ed., Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States (University Park, Pa.: The Penn State University Press, 1998), 134.
21. Or with the categorical imperative, as Kant would say. See Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Mary Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 51-53.
22. Regarding the harm principle, see J. W. Harris, Legal Philosophies, 2nd ed. (London: Butterworths, 1997) 23, 131-36; Raz, "Autonomy, Toleration, and the Harm Principle," passim; and Alan Gewirth, The Community of Rights (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 175-76, 315.
23. Regarding the harm principle, see J. W. Harris, Legal Philosophies, 2nd ed. (London: Butterworths, 1997) 23, 131-36; Raz, "Autonomy, Toleration, and the Harm Principle," passim; and Alan Gewirth, The Community of Rights (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 175-76, 315.
24. In regard to these churches, see Mirella W. Eberts, "The Roman Catholic Church and Democracy in Poland," Europe-Asia Studies 50: 5 (July 1998); and Sabrina P. Ramet, Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998), chaps. 7, 12.
25. In regard to these churches, see Mirella W. Eberts, "The Roman Catholic Church and Democracy in Poland," Europe-Asia Studies 50: 5 (July 1998); and Sabrina P. Ramet, Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998), chaps. 7, 12.
26. See the papal encyclicals Rerum novarum (Pope Leo XIII, 1891), Mater et magistra (Pope John XXIII, 1961), and Sollicitudo rei socialis (Pope John Paul II, 1988).
27. See the papal encyclicals Rerum novarum (Pope Leo XIII, 1891), Mater et magistra (Pope John XXIII, 1961), and Sollicitudo rei socialis (Pope John Paul II, 1988).
28. See the papal encyclicals Rerum novarum (Pope Leo XIII, 1891), Mater et magistra (Pope John XXIII, 1961), and Sollicitudo rei socialis (Pope John Paul II, 1988).
29. Locke, Two Treatises, 2nd treat., para. 27, 329.
30. C. B. MacPherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962), 199; see also Locke, Two Treatises, 2nd treat., sect. 50, 343-44.
31. C. B. MacPherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962), 199; see also Locke, Two Treatises, 2nd treat., sect. 50, 343-44.
32. J. S. Mill, The Subjection of Women, in Mill, On Liberty and Other Writings, 133-35.
33. Capitalism is also deficient in this regard. As I wrote in Erasmus in May 1998, capitalism is a system without a heart, while socialism is a system without a brain. I suggested in that publication that a legitimate economic system, which might be called "solidarism," should be based on an equitable distribution of the wealth, in accord with a strict understanding of the imperatives of natural law. See my "Liberalizam, moral i društveni poredak," n. 1 above.