@article{article_851072, title={Human Security as Final Cause of Political Society}, journal={Marmara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Hukuk Araştırmaları Dergisi}, volume={27}, pages={120–153}, year={2021}, DOI={10.33433/maruhad.851072}, author={Erkiner, Hakkı Hakan and Omgba Akoudou, Emerant Yves}, keywords={Human security, political society, human nature, conservation, natural order}, abstract={Since its advent in international affairs in the 1990s the concept of human security has been subject to a great interest within the academia and political milieus. Various conceptions of it were advanced and received concrete forms. This paper is a contribution both to the understanding of human security and the sense of its satisfaction related to political society. Precisely from an essentialist perspective, it advances a naturalistic conception of human security, which enables to account of it as the human natural order, inescapably implying conservation. That way, it stands as the final cause of political society, that is to say, its foundation and its finality. It tests that by rereading Aristotelian essentialism and contractualist philosophies in a way that they inform human security as a natural law, evidenced in the Man’s political animality.}, number={1}, publisher={Marmara Üniversitesi}