Dilemas de uma cultura política democrática

Abstract

The debate between liberals and communitarians yields two opposite positions concerning an adequate political culture to contempo­rary liberal democracies. Such positions, however, do not account for the democratic discourse's legitimacy of our times. This can be seen, for in­stance, by means of the analysis of two questions: (i) the distinction be­tween man's rights and citizen's rights: (ii) the progressive dissociation between some and the ones who make the main political and economic decisions which affect this same people. Albrecht Wellmer offers sugestions to a democratic political culture in order to keep the main liberals and communitarians demands. We think nevertheless that even Wellmer's pro­posal reveals itself not to be enough.