Antikitenin Öğrettikleri: Yeni Çağ Avrupa Düşüncesinde Yeni Stoacılık

Year 2011, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 25 - 44, 01.06.2011

Fatih Durgun M. Burak Özdemir

Abstract

Aşağıda da tartışılacağı gibi, özellikle Rönesans ve Reformasyon dönemlerinden itibaren stoacı felsefenin dönemin olumsuzluklarına antik mirasın diğer birçok öğesinden daha iyi çözüm önerdiğine inanılmıştır. Çoğunlukla bu felsefeyle özdeşleştirilen isimlere atıfta bulunularak oluşturulan söylemler, hem düşünsel tartışmalara hem de daha somut siyasi ve düşünsel programlara yön vermiştir. Bu yazıda da esasen, yeni stoacılık olarak tanımlanan düşünsel faaliyetin Yeni Çağ Avrupa tarihinde, sosyal, ekonomik, dinsel ve politik yıkımlar neticesinde ortaya çıkmaya başlayan merkezî devlet yönetimleri bünyesindeki yeri tartışılacaktır. Genel olarak bu merkezî yapılanmaların, bir antik çağ mirasının, o dönem merkezî oluşumlarının içerisinde ne kadar da önemli olduğunu göstermek amaçlanmaktadır.

Keywords

Antikite, Yeni Stoacılık, Justus Lipsius, Seneca, Tacitus, Rönesans, Reform, Yeni Çağ.

Lessons From Antiquity: Neo-Stoicism In The Early Modern European Thought

Abstract

Early Modern Europe witnessed the emergence of more centralised states as a consequence of socio-political, economic and religious turmoil. Since Renaissance and Reformation,
it has been commonly held that Stoic philosophy has offered much more solid solutions to the
problems of the crises in Western societies rather than the other philosophical schools of the
Antiquity. This paper argues that the discourses shaped by references to the thinkers identified with Neo-Stoicism steered the course of intellectual discussions as well as political and intellectual programmes in this period. Besides, the place and influence of Neo-Stoicism, as an ancient philosophical school, in the formation of early modern central states should be emphasized.

Keywords

Antiquity, Neo-Stoicism, Justus Lipsius, Seneca, Tacitus, Renaissance, Reformation

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