European identity as an essential factor of the construction of open society in Lithuania: philosophical analysis and juridical interpretation

Abstract

This project will consist in the interdisciplinary research of the impact of European identity for the construction of open society in the modern Lithuania from the philosophical and juridical perspective. The object of the research will include the ideas of Lithuanian thinkers, especially philosophers and lawyers, of the period 1918-1940, that correspond to the concept of open society, also the particular thinking of soviet times, which yet influences the societal process in Lithuania, but the main part of research will be focused on the tendencies of openness in the Lithuanian society after 1990. Three researches: two of them from Lithuania and one from France will analyze the very complex conception of European identity, the different ways of its reception in Europe and in Lithuania, by interpreting it as the essential factor of formation of the open society. The different concepts of open society, since the appearance of the term in the texts of H. Bergson till the very contemporary variants, will constitute a whole part of the research. The processes of growing openness in the Lithuanian society, which will be analyzed as the consequence of the symbiosis between the conceptions of the European identity and the conceptions of the open society, will be reflected as fundamental processes of thinking, which are constantly expressed in the law of the state.