Political Theory and Influence

Abstract Conservatism is now often said to be a disposition. Against definitions of conservatism as a disposition, critics say that it is also an ideology, and against any such abstract definitions, that it is a historical entity. But no one has yet indicated how these criticisms can be used to improve the definition…

• JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER

Political writings of eighteenth-century France have been so far mostly overlooked as a source of republican thought. Philosophers such as Condorcet actively promoted the ideal of republicanism in ways that can shed light on current debates. In this paper, I look at one particular source: Le Républicain, published in…

• SANDRINE BERGES

An analysis of the origins of Turkish liberalism reveals the increasing importance of a civic-republican view at the turn of the twentieth century that accompanied the acceleration of the nation-bu...

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• JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER

18.yy.'da Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) tarafından sistemleştirilmiş olan faydacılık, günümüzde özellikle İngiltere başta olmak üzere Anglo-Sakson geleneğin hüküm sürdüğü coğrafyalarda, ekonomiden siyasete, ahlaktan hukuka birçok alanda oldukça büyük etkiye sahip bir teoridir. John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), Bentham'ın ort…

Locke's conceptualization of sovereignty and its uses, combining theological, social, and political perspectives, testifies to his intellectual profundity that was spurred by his endeavour to re-traditionalize a changing world. First, by relying on the traditional, personalistic notion of polity, Locke developed a con…

• BEDRİ GENCER

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There is a significant similarity between Ibn Khaldun, having lived in the Northern Africa in the fourteenth century and Montesquieu in terms of their ideas concerning the direct effect of geographical conditions and climate on human life. According to Ibn Khaldun, who divided the world into seven climatic regions fro…

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Bu çalışmada, John Stuart Mill’in (1806-1873) faydacılık teorisi bağlamında, bireyi iyi kabul edilen bir eyleme teşvik edebilecek veya kötü kabul edilen bir eylemden caydırabilecek ahlaki yaptırım araçlarının neler olduğu araştırılmıştır. Mill ahlaki yaptırımları, dışsal ve içsel yaptırımlar olarak iki ana gruba ayırı…

• ZEKİ AKTAŞ

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Most political theorists are committed to one particular view about the relation between theory and practice. It is argued in this article that there are in fact four possible ways of relating theory and practice, which are distinguished in terms of the answers that are given to two distinct questions. Derived from th…

• JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER