A SURVEY OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ETHICS AND POLITICS
WITH AN ARISTOTELIAN APPRAISAL
Ç / elik, Sinan Kadir
Ph.D., Department of Philosophy
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ahmet & / #272 / nam
March 2010, 189 pages
In the history of philosophy, ethics and politics have either been considered as
two unrelated, irreducible realms or as identical to each other. In the thesis the
historical transformation of the problematic relation between ethics and politics
is critically evaluated. It is argued that from the emergence of the conflict in
Ancient Greece following the &ldquo / Socratic ideal&rdquo / to the modern attempt for its
resolution by the &ldquo / Machiavellian revolution,&rdquo / the prominent theories developed
for dealing with the problem have defined politics as an amoral practice, as a
science, a technique or an art. An alternative Aristotelian approach is tried to be
developed so as to elucidate the nature of the distinction between ethics and
politics. According to this view, ethics and politics can neither be strictly
separated from each other nor be reduced into one another. The Aristotelian
conception of politike as &ldquo / philosophy of human affairs&rdquo / has ethical, practical and
technical dimensions. The thesis tries to clarify at which point ethics and politics
should be conceived as two different practices and at which point they cannot be
treated as independent from each other. Hence, the present study aims to
determine the peculiarities and the strong sides of Aristotelian practical
philosophy in order to offer an alternative to resolve the problem under
consideration.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12611742/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 March 2010 |
| Creators | Celik, Sinan Kadir |
| Contributors | Inam, Ahmet |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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