Política y Democracia en Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Elementos para una Comprensión de la Actual Crisis de los Sistemas Políticos.

Abstract

This Master's thesis proposes a critical reading of Nicolás Gómez Dávila's Escolios a un texto implícito, in order to find in his reflections guidelines or principles of political philosophy to understand the current crisis of political systems, and in particular, the disvalue suffered by democracy. Thus, in order to discern and fully understand the reactionarism he is accused of, it is imperative, before any hasty judgment, to determine, first, the philosophical sources that support his political ideology; then, to appreciate the conceptual relations, more than evident, with the political tradition of classical antiquity, represented in Plato's metaphysical realism. This is the main objective of the present research. It should be noted, however, that if the objective is plausible in itself, it is not entirely pertinent: does it make any sense today to vindicate Gómez Dávila's reactionarism? The answer, as will be shown in the following pages, is affirmative, only on the unappealable condition that his scathing criticism of the fetishes of the modern world facilitates, and here is its usefulness, the understanding of the fundamental reasons for the crisis of the values of modernity and the increasingly alarming discrediting of democracy as a political system.