Game theory, Max Weber, Leo Strauss, Mihály Polányi, political epistemology

This paper explores the applicability of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem to political theory by examining critiques of Max Weber’s principle of value neutrality. It analyses the positions of Leo Strauss and Michael Polanyi, arguing that their critiques function as game-theoretical equivalents of Gödelian propositions – true statements that cannot be formally proven within a given system. The study demonstrates how Strauss’s notion of the “crisis of modernity” and Polanyi’s idea of “personal knowledge” challenge the epistemological assumptions of Weberian rationalism. By linking formal logic with political philosophy, the paper proposes a new analytical framework for understanding the limits of value-neutrality in political science. It concludes by advocating for epistemological pluralism and the recognition of moral truth claims beyond formal systems.

TAKÁCS, M. PÉTER

Political changes, media system, Hungarian electronic media, public service, media law

I have chosen the systemic changes, which took place within the system of the Hungarian electronic media as the topic of my doctoral dissertation. This change was not only a significant point of controversy of the first two parliamentary cycles, but straight after the first elections it accurately reflected the basic lines of division manifest in the Hungarian political space. Studying the basic differences between the bills submitted during the Antall government and the Horn government and how much the ideological divide between the prevailing governing parties became apparent are not devoid of interest either.

It is important to keep track of how the positions of the different parties changed in relation to the Media Act, depending on whether they were on the government or the opposition side of the negotiating table, also how the standpoints of the smaller opposition parties changed, as well as that of SZDSZ, which went through a significant political turnaround, since the role and hardly overrated influence of the free democratic politicians on the process of the elaboration of the law and shaping the political arguments are hardly debatable. The thesis pays special attention to the concept of public service, which was finally successfully created only by Act I of 1996, although the makers of earlier bills had also been concerned about the issue.

OROSZ, TÍMEA