POSTCOLONIALISM AND THE PROSPECT OF POLITICAL DEONTOLOGY: PLATO, KANT AND SCHOPENHAUER IN A PRE-CRITIQUE
Journal Title: Освітній дискурс : збірник наукових праць - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Urgency of the research. Postcolonialism is a rich theory that offers the opportunity for a wide discussion that expands to Ethics and Politics. Nonetheless, as every other theory, it must be seen within the possibility of a dialectical manner. Target setting. Certain peoples have been exploited for years. Other peoples have become their exploiters. This paper aims to argue for and against the ethical and political dilemmas that are involved in this situation. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis.The paper deals with an analysis of where the problem of colonialism is a one-sided issue that cannot be examined philosophically. Thus, we take into consideration three philosophical theories that hopefully will add insights to the interpretation of colonialism and postcolonialism. The research objective. The objective of this research is to discern reasonable arguments in the particular philosophical discussion rather than resort to a prior ethical interpretation. The statement of basic materials. In this paper we have tried to introspect on the philosophy of these three philosophers who take on different analyses on ethical and political issues. However, their approaches become useful in offering hermeneutical tools for the exploration of the issue under discussion. The basic material is to refer to their views from particular books which include the most related to the issue parts of their theories. Most of all, to make a connection between their theories in the light of understanding the theoretical consequences of postcolonialist research. Conclusions. For Kant, Schopenhauer and Plato, different perspectives add to the awareness of the problem under discussion. While political deontology seems possible to some extent (as in the theory of Plato), it remains important that people and nations should be mobilized by free will and common decision in order to achieve political freedom. Also, there is noted certain emphasis on the fact that postcolonialism, as well as colonialism, may be ignoring some practical elements of the ethical reality and extract them in a form of petitio principii. What this paper tries to restore is the logical sequence of the argumentation in favor or against.
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Panos Eliopoulos
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- DOI 10.33930/ed.2018.5007.4(3-4)-10
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