Totalizujące praktyki we współczesnych demokracjach (aspekty filozoficzne i teoretycznoprawne)

Abstract

In the present paper, we focus on diverse threats to the functioning of democraticsocieties, associated with technological progress. Information technologies can lead to the violation of human dignity and contribute to the transgression of human rights and freedoms. Authorities in democratic countries – thanks to new technological instruments – control and supervise areas of life that hitherto were considered private. This increasing state control leads us to the thesis that there is an incipient process of gradual convergence between democratic and totalitarian countries, and that totalizing practices become more and more pervasive in the functioning of modern democratic systems.