CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Atak, Kivanc |
|---|---|
| Title | Between Subversive and Constructive Terrains of Political Action: Civil Disobedience and The Problem of Violence and Punishment |
| Summary | The transforming conceptualization of political obligation and the changing perspectives on the rights of the citizens against state authority entails the reconsideration of civil disobedience as a subversive and constructive political action. The definitional and justificatory aspects of civil disobedience provide a fertile field of theoretical analysis to contribute to the conceptual upgrading of the phenomenon in contemporary age of political philosophy. This thesis particularly focuses on the question of violence and punishment as one of the most controversial issues within the literature. My effort to construe these problems thoroughly will rely on the comparative examination of the foremost illustrative approaches to the idiosyncrasies of civil disobedience. On the basis of the puzzles that I inferred from the existing patterns of argumentation, I will elaborate on violence and punishment from the angel of fair play account that I consider as a useful and plausible means likely to contribute to the ongoing debates. Hereby, I will argue that nonviolence and avoiding punishment are preferable not due to the conventional explanations that are weak in the face of claims in the opposite direction, but due to the prima facie duty of fair play, according to which use of violence and refusing penalty would be unfair to the fellow cooperators who are subject to the rule of law in the polity. |
| Supervisor | Miklosi, Zoltan |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/atak_kivanc.pdf |
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