Critical thinking, politics on a large scale and media democracy

• Main Author: José Antonio IBÁÑEZ-MARTÍN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2015-06-01
• Series: Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria
• Subjects: problemas contemporáneos; democracia en sociedad mediática; nietzsche
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-3743/article/view/13072

The first approximation to the social current reality offers us numerous motives for the worry. The spectacle of violence and of immorality can scare us easily. But more worrying still it is to verify that the horizon of conviviality, peace and wellbeing that Europe had been developing from the Treaty of Rome of 1957 has compromised itself seriously for the economic crisis. Today we are before an assault to the democratic politics, which is qualified, on the part of the media democracy, as an exhausted system, which is required to be changed into a new and great politics, a politics on a large scale. The article analyses the concept of a politics on a large scale, primarily attending to Nietzsche, and noting its union with the great philosophy and the great education. The study of the texts of Nietzsche leads us to the conclusion of how in them we often find an interesting analysis of the problems and a misguided proposal for solutions. We cannot think to suggest solutions to all the problems, but we outline various proposals about changes of political activity, that reasonably are defended from the media democracy. In conclusion, we point out that a politics on a large scale requires statesmen, able to suggest modes of life in common that can structure a long-term coexistence.