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- Title
Berlin düşünüşünde eleştirel akıl, özgürlük ve çoğulculuk.
- Authors
Öztürk, Armağan
- Abstract
As a self-identified liberal rationalist, Berlin maintains a critical attitude towards systematic, universalist and monist arguments. He finds the monist conception that directs life in accordance to a single meta-principle unrealistic because of the natural pluralism in terms of intra-society and inter-society relations. In Berlin’s political philosophy, monism is regarded as an exaggerated rationalism amd a utopoan attitude. Also for him, monism, in many cases, leads to totalitarianism. But he opposes limitless pluralism as well. He thinks relativism as problematic as a monist stance. Then, a plausible approach would be an attitude that allows freedom of choice for everyone while emphasizing the importance of a minimal ethics for all humanity. This thesis of minimal ethics and an infinite trust to the individual’s roght of self-determination places Berlin in close proximity to the lehacy of enlightenment. In the article, with referances to the concepts of negative freedom and enlightenment, the relations between reason, freedom and plurality are analyzed in the context of Berlin’s ideas.
- Publication
Felsefelogos, 2016, Issue 62, p107
- ISSN
1309-9175
- Publication type
Article