Justification as a term of professionalism in political praxis

Abstract

The article undertakes the analysis of subtle relationships between mechanism of justification (as a multistage process of shaping the bases/grounds for concrete arguments used by different political subjects) and phenomenon of professionalism in political praxis (as a competent realization of specified profession by some political subjects). Therefore the basic aim of this article is to pay attention to moment of justification (using various techniques of reasoning) as a calculable indication of professionalism in behaviors, actions, decisions etc., appearing in political life. In this matter the article undertakes the following issues: 1. the notion of professionalism, its essence (substance) and factors, 2. the phenomenon of professionalism in political space, 3. two - way explanation of the notion of justification, i.e. over the prism of validation of some statement (logical aspects) and over the prism of vindication of some action (activity aspects), 4. the notion of justification in political praxis. Finally the article explains the correlation between the process of argumentation (which is the verbal indication of the phenomenon of justification) and professional behavior among political subjects.