SİYASİ TAHAYYÜLLER, AHLAKİ NORMLAR VE EDEBİ ANLATILAR: RICHARD RORTY VE MARTHA NUSSBAUM’IN KATKILARI

Year 2015, Issue: 20, 161 - 179, 01.12.2015

Koray Tütüncü , Fatma Tütüncü

Abstract

Bu makalenin iki amacı vardır. İlki siyaset ve ahlak felsefesinin edebi anlatılarla buluşma biçimini göstermek. İkincisi böylesi bir buluşmanın liberal demokratik bireylerin siyasi tahayyüllerini geliştirip demokratik siyasi pratiğin canlandırılmasına ilişkin katkılarını göstermek. Bu iki amaç iki önemli liberal filozofun Richard Rorty ve Martha Nussbaum’ın eserleri üzerinden ele alınacaktır. Sonuç itibariyle bu iki filozofun çok farklı felsefi ve siyasi fikirlere sahip olsalar da edebi metinlerin siyasi ve ahlaki önemi konusunda birleştikleri, siyasi ahlaki alanda siyasi kayıtsızlık ve ahlaki soyutluk engelini aşarak adalet ve dayanışma duygularının güçleneceğini vurguladıklarını ortaya koyar.

Keywords

edebiyat, siyaset, etik, Nussbaum, Rorty, dayanışma, siyasi tahayyül

Political Imaginations, Moral Norms and Literary Narrations: Richard Rorty and Martha Nussbaum’s Contributions

Abstract

This article has two aims. First it indicates the way political moral philosophy
meets literary forms. Second, it indicates the way this meeting contributes
to the democratic political practice through cultivating the political imagination
of liberal democratic individuals. These two aims are mediated through
the works of two significant liberal philosophers Richard Rorty and Martha
Nussbaum. Although these philosophers have very different political arguments,
when it comes to the importance of the literary texts, they believe their progressive
role in politico-moral sphere should not be ignored.

Keywords

literature, politics, ethics, Nussbaum, Rorty, political imagination

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