European Democracy Versus Neoliberal Totalitarism

This paper points out the need for a philosophical articulation of democracy, contrary to ideological interpretations in the context of liberalism, i.e. the paradigm of liberal democracy. This perspective is considered in the light of the human condition in a pandemic crisis. The world before the COVID-19 pandemic was largely marked by the so-called posthumanism. In this paper, posthumanism is regarded as an entropy of diversity among people and their understandings of the world and life, which is placed in the context of democratization without reflection. Thus, “democracy” makes it impossible for “human phenomena” to be placed under one human idea. What determines this process, however, is not democracy, but a phenomenon which is already known as global extension of neoliberalism. The destructive effects of this ideological hybrid, especially for the sovereignty of the human community, call for renewal of the civilizational foundations of European democracy, which is based on the principle of sovereignty of states and peoples; hence, a philosophically articulated Christian democracy.