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- Title
RAWLS'UN HALKLARIN YASASI'NDA HALKLARA LAYIK GÖRÜLMEYEN LAİKLİK.
- Authors
KİBAR, Sibel
- Abstract
In this study, John Rawls' perspective on secularism is discussed as it is discussed in his work called The Law of Peoples, but before that, his distance to secularism is discussed in his previous work Political Liberalism. Rawls has developed the principles of justice based on a society in which equal, free and rational citizens have adopted liberal democratic values. Rawls defines political liberalism as a ground for the functioning of public life. According to Rawls, while secularism may be a comprehensive doctrine held by a group of citizens, political liberalism and pluralism are not such comprehensive doctrines. Political liberalism is a political solution that will enable different parties to live together and make the state neutral to religions. While freedom of religion and conscience is guaranteed by the state in a liberal society, the right of individuals to leave their religion and the religious community is also guaranteed. Rawls emphasizes that the principles that apply to the institutions of a liberal society may not be valid in other social structures. But societies with a religion-based government, which he calls decent societies, also make them equal parties of the international agreement in The Law of Peoples because the cooperation of merely liberal states will not be sufficient. The fact that Rawls, who also included the peoples of theocratic states in the Society of Peoples, maintains his attitude towards secularism in his theory of international relations, even further away from secularism, which makes us think that he considers acceptable for other peoples of the world to be oppressed under religious pressure. While Rawls argues that these states respect human rights and so they deserve to be ranked as decent states, he does not care about the violation of the rights of non-believers and women. Thus, this contradiction arising from Rawls's attitude towards secularism, especially in The Law of Peoples, is indicated and it is argued that basic human rights cannot be secured without secularism.
- Subjects
RAWLS, John, 1921-2002; RELIGIOUS communities; FREEDOM of religion; INTERNATIONAL relations theory; JUSTICE; DEMOCRACY; COOPERATION
- Publication
Academic Journal of Philosophy / Felsefi Düşün, 2023, Issue 20, p25
- ISSN
2148-0958
- Publication type
Article