Whence virtue? Whence justice? Whence morality? America and modernity
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2009
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1733-2680
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"The United States is a quintessentially modern nation, in fact the first modern nation
in history. In America all the problems of modernity happened first, and all the answers
to the problems encountered have been tried accordingly. In the 1830s Alexis
de Tocqueville defined the problems America experienced as a universal problem
of democracy, but democracy here could as well mean modernity. The experiment
which was called America has for this reason always been a challenge for Europe
and the rest of the world, with very ambivalent feelings towards it. For some, hatred
of America comes easily, spontaneously; for others love and reverence for her is
spontantenous. Both passions come from the same understanding: that in America
everything which has happened to human beings may happen to the people of modernity
sooner or later. For some, it is a reason for trembling with fear. For others
the reason for hope. This hope comes from a realization, to paraphrase Winston
Churchill, that if in a modern civilization we encounter a situation when everything
has been tried and failed, there is still hope that Americans will come with a proper
solution to the challenge. In that sense, America is a homeland of all people of modernity,
whether we like it or not, and we may say that whoever hates America, hates
today, to a certain extent, humankind."(...)
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Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe 2009, nr 2, s. 85-146.