Metaphysics and metapolitics
List of Articles
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About metapolitics on the metafysikos website
When Joseph de Maistre took the word Metapolitik from German philosophers into French, he understood it in terms of the metaphysics of politics. Aldo La Fata’s panorama of metapolitics is much broader, going back to a Christian usage in canon law and has spread, in line with current usage in various Western cultures (Spain, Italy, […]
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Genealogy of metapolitics
After a biographical work dedicated to Silvano Panunzio and published in the “Tabula fati” collection by Marco Solfanelli’s publishing house: Silvano Panunzio. Vita e pensiero, Edizioni Solfanelli, Chieti 2021, this condensed article is dedicated to the metapolitical perspective of the famous traditional writer, Silvano Panunzio, about whom little has been said until now.
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
The current difficulties of these Western democracies (disavowal of politics, abstention, riots on unjustified pretexts), because they have expressly opted for exclusively representative regimes opposed to the original idea of democracy as power-sharing, could be mitigated by a better understanding of the definitions of the terms of what were once its principles, before they were reduced to a simple motto: liberty, equality, fraternity.
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From Democracy to Diacracy
If we can easily denounce the current democratic illusion, it’s because modern democracies have explicitly rejected all democracy in favor of representative regimes. It’s no surprise, then, that the difficulties in which they are bogged down make democracies simply impossible. And yet, going back to the fundamentals of the past millennia (Hammurabi, Solon, Aristotle…), the possibility of democracy reappears. It simply needs to be renamed “diacracy”: power belongs to everyone, and “all that’s needed” is to share it in time and space, as an exclusively representative regime has no right to pre-empt it.