Bir Liberalin Vicdanı: Pierre Bayle’in Vicdan Özgürlüğü Savunusu

Yıl 2009, Sayı: 55, 135 - 148, 01.06.2009

Bican Şahin

Öz

İnsanın nihaî amacının “mutlu olmak” olduğu üzerine Aristoteles’ten bu yana siyaset ve ahlâk felsefecileri arasında bir fikir birliği bulunmaktadır. Yapıp ettiğimiz her şey mutluluğu yakalamak adınadır.1 Liberal düşünürler arasında mutluluğun “iyi yaşam” (the good life) sürmekle mümkün olabileceği fikri genel kabul görür. Bununla birlikte liberaller tek bir “iyi yaşam” biçiminin olduğu görüşünde değillerdir. Birbirinden farklılaşan hatta birbiriyle rekabet eden iyi yaşam biçimlerinin var olduğu kabul edilir.

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