Główne koncepcje filozoficzne i aksjologie polityczne o bezpieczeństwie

realism, philosophical materialism, and their security paradigms, the authors extract the related political axiologies. The article provides evidence that the idealistic ideologies are based on The Same in the ontology of Plato, and that they identify security with peace; the realist ideologies are based on The Third in Plato’s ontology, and they identify security with war and peace; finally, the materialist-empirical ideologies are based on The Other in the same ontology, and they identify security with war. This evidence is further used in an attempt to prove that security is best facilitated by the system based on the realist philosophical concept, therefore with mixed government – as in The Third. Plato discussed such mixed government in the framework of the idea of aristocratic-democratic system, whereas Aristotle – within the framework of the idea of politeia, a system of the middle class. Today, the notion of mixed government seems to be expressed by the idea of deliberative democracy (Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls) which overcomes and blends liberal democracy and republican democracy – a democracy of Citizens as distinguishable from citizen democracy. This newest concept of deliberative democracy considers security and the guarantee of security as tied to the Citizens competently communicating with each other, making agreements, reaching consensuses and compromises.