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- Title
TOPLUM SÖZLEŞMESİ KURAMINDA İHMAL EDİLEN BOYUT: KUŞAK SORUNU.
- Authors
KUTLU, Aydoğan
- Abstract
Social contract theory explains that people form a political body with their common will and submit to a legitimate power voluntarily. Although social contract theory has taken different forms in different contexts throughout history, it has often neglected the question of the subordination of future generations, since the concept of the contract ideally takes place in the 'here and now'. The fact that the concept of generation is a concept that is often fragmented by other sociological categories and rarely politicized has a great effect on this neglect. Today, the increasing importance of both the generation concept and the social contract makes it necessary to reconsider the relationship between these two. Within the scope of this study, this relationship is discussed with two important questions: "Why should a generation submit to a contract which it did not participate?" and "How can justice be achieved between different generations with its political, financial and ecological aspects?". When these questions are taken as the starting point, functionally the discussion continues through the separation of political and ethical dimensions. While the political dimension is examined through the problem of political subordination, the ethical dimension is handled with conceptual and theoretical tools related to intergenerational justice and rights debates.
- Publication
Academic Journal of Philosophy / Felsefi Düşün, 2022, Issue 19, p337
- ISSN
2148-0958
- Publication type
Article