Koniuszewski: The substance of Power

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During Deng Xiaoping's gathering with American president Carter, the second complained about the problems of governing America. Deng wrote: “You would effort to regulation China!”

In turn Confucius taught that where there are even 2 people, there is simply a hierarchy. Unless, he added, it is simply a relationship that abolishes this universal and iron principle. There are different views on the origin of political power. any effort to draw it from household relations, specified as the regulation of the household father. Others emphasize its evolutionary nature, for it is something a small different in all age than before. In turn, various schools say that it is essential to carry out the so - called common good.

But there are any – even many – who emphasize its antagonistic nature and aspects of coercion, which are intended to service a fewer to subdue many. In these conjectures, it can be said that all the theories mentioned contain partial truth, due to the fact that power has a Janus face. Complicated is matter. All these doctrines – despite spiritual and even fundamental contradictions – have a very crucial common feature: it is, in any case, any kind of utilitarianism. So power must have its intent and purpose. And this is besides true, for otherwise it would only be a kind of theatre on the large phase of our past and possibly even a grotesque one? And it's not! We can besides turn to nihilism and say that power simply is due to the fact that it is. specified an anthropocentrism has been pushed to extremes.

In turn, looking at these matters from the point of view of the immediate nihilism of the anarchists, it should be viewed as being the very essence of the incarnate evil. If we fell into a trap of dividing the hair into 4 parts, or besides much over-intellectualization, then it would turn out that by approaching the fact in this way, we would enter a maze of reflections and divactions, which would yet lead to nothing valuable. So what's it like?

All these controversy can be brought to the attention that these speculations have been separated from the concepts of Christian teaching, concerning everything under the sun, and thus besides referring to the knowing of the essence of earth's political power. If that's what happened, people started moving, like in the fog. Their tongues were confused and they lost their minds. 1 more proof of civilization's fall!

In the meantime, power has a supernatural origin. She was implanted into man to bring order and peace on earth. There's nothing more crucial than the order of things. It can be, of course, a pervert, even a sinister character, but even specified depraved power is much better than the most perfect insolence! All the old cultures have always known about it, and they have preached in different ways. Confucius besides writes about nothing else. We gotta take a step further to recognise that, if so: this means the sacralization of power. Only then does it become rightful. Having been sanctified by prescribed rituals, and these have been lost in our world. No secular ruler – president or prime minister – is anointed anymore, becoming actually a rebel and a usurper. So what can we expect?

Antoni Koniuszewski

Think Poland, No. 11-12 (12-19.03.2023)

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