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- Title
Lykurgos: Rousseau'nun model yasacısı.
- Authors
Dore, Fatma
- Abstract
This paper examines the regard the probably mythical Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus is held in by the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It shows that for Rousseau, Lycurgus is a model lawgiver and he is such both for how he was thought to have produced the fundamental laws of the Spartan state and what those laws are. This paper first examines the attractiveness of Lycurgus' supposed institutions in the ancient world and in the Enlightenment, as this will enable a contextualization of Rousseau's outlook. It then gives an overview of Rousseau's approach to political philosophy on the question of freedom and society in order that Lycurgus' status as a model for Rousseau can be understood. It then reveals that Lycurgus is a model lawgiver for Rousseau in the way in which he formulates the fundamental laws of Sparta. Next, it demonstrates that these laws themselves create a state that is the least vulnerable to collapse, which also makes Lycurgus a model lawgiver to Rousseau.
- Publication
Felsefelogos, 2016, Issue 61, p129
- ISSN
1309-9175
- Publication type
Article