STOIC ETHICS AND ITS EVALUATION BY HEGEL

Year 2018, Volume: 13 Issue: 26, 443 - 455, 29.12.2018

Emre Karatekeli

Abstract

The Stoic school of philosophy stands out mostly with its ethical doctrine. The most crucial theme in it is their distinction between ethically binding values and those to be considered neutral. What corresponds to this disjunction is a distribution of areas in which one should take responsibility and ought not to. In this paper, as well as presenting and discussing this basic theme of Stoic ethics with a critical gaze, I will problematise Hegel’s evaluation of it, as it is worked out in the Phenomenology of the Spirit. Then, I will question whether Hegel’s claim that Stoic ethics was unduly inward-looking is tenable given the Stoic insistence on the value of sociability.

Keywords

Stoic Ethics, Hegel, Sociability, Inwardness

STOACI ETİK VE HEGEL TARAFINDAN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Abstract

Stoacı felsefe okulu en çok etik öğretisi ile öne çıkmaktadır. Buradaki en
önemli tema etik olarak bağlayıcı olan ve nötr olarak görülen değerleri ayırmış
olmalarıdır. Bu ayrıma karşılık gelen şey ise kişinin sorumluluk alması ve
almaması gereken alanların dağıtılmış olmasıdır. Bu yazıda, Stoacı etiğin bu
temel temasını eleştirel bir gözle sunmanın ve tartışmanın yanı sıra, Tinin
Görüngübilimi’nde işlenildiği şekilde, Hegel’in bunu değerlendirmesini
sorunsallaştıracağım. Daha sonra, Hegel’in Stoacı etiğin gereğinden fazla içe
dönük olduğu iddiasının, Stoacıların sosyallik değerine vurguları dikkate
alındığında, tutarlı olup olmadığını sorgulayacağım.

Keywords

Stoacı Etik, Hegel, Sosyallik, İçedönüklük, Epictetus

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