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- Title
KANT'IN SUİ GENERİS SÖZLEŞME TEORİSİ: YERELDEN DÜNYAYA.
- Authors
ÇÖREKÇİOĞLU, Hakan
- Abstract
Immanuel Kant is among the modern contract theorists and he develops a sui generis contract theory that is rooted in the systematic unity of his critical philosophy. Justifying the contract as an idea of reason, Kant reformulates the concepts of traditional contractarianism such as consent, agreement, political obligation and property. In this context, Kant actually reveals the logical structure of contract theories. Thus discussions on the historical reality of a contract and that of a state of nature are excluded. When Kant considers the contract and the state of nature as an assumption, he points out that they are not historical facts. When he justifies the contract as an idea of reason, he develops an ideal understanding of contract. Accordingly, in line with his critical philosophy, the contract as an ideal undertakes the task of criticizing the status quo. The idea of contract as a criterion of criticism is placed also at the center of Kant's thoughts about the rule of law, public sphere, republicanism and the world republic. Moreover, Kant's contract theory includes a distinctive theory of property and it problematizes the issue of property by subjecting the legal status of private property to possible consent, transforming it into a matter of justice.
- Publication
Academic Journal of Philosophy / Felsefi Düşün, 2022, Issue 19, p151
- ISSN
2148-0958
- Publication type
Article