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- Title
YURTTAŞLAR SÖZLEŞMESİ: ROUSSEAU'NUN ZORLU MİRASI.
- Authors
SAVAŞÇIN, Zeynep
- Abstract
Rousseau's thought defeats the contractual tradition's claim to ground the legal order at three main stages, to the point of turning this tradition upside down. The first of these stages is the rejection of the way in which the state of nature is understood in the contractual theories preceding Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought, by showing that the assumptions put forward about the state of nature in these theories were in fact reflecting the reality of the actual corrupt sociability. In the second stage, the principle that constitutes the source of the laws and that determines their legitimacy shifts its place and moves from the individuals and their rights transferred by the contract to the contract itself. In other theories, the principle of sociality refers to the individual due to the right or rights she has in the natural state, and in this context, the contract is the tool that serves the purpose of securing these rights, especially the right to life and property. In Rousseau, on the other hand, the contract itself becomes a critical principle and presents us the normative core that will evolve into Immanuel Kant's original contract. In the third and final stage, a restructuring of the concept of citizenship takes place in the Social Contract: Through an analysis of the relationship between the human, the individual and the citizen in a way that foreshadows the Hegelian dialectical progress, we come to realize that the category of citizenship in Rousseau is conceived on the basis of an collaboration, a relationality that sets the scene for legislative activity and laws, with the consequence that the contract expresses a dynamic inter-citizenship. Rousseau thereby opens an unbridgeable horizon in modern practical philosophy by turning the contractual tradition upside down while being a part of it. This article aims to show this horizon and to reveal the projections of Rousseau's conception of the contract that manifests itself as a particular "inter-citizenship" that has survived to the present day.
- Publication
Academic Journal of Philosophy / Felsefi Düşün, 2022, Issue 19, p391
- ISSN
2148-0958
- Publication type
Article