DEMOKRATİK VE ÖZERK BİREYİN YETİŞMESİ: JEAN- JACQUES ROUSSEAU'NUN EMILE'İNDEN NELER ÖĞRENEBİLİRİZ?

Bu makalede, günümüzde demokrasinin bir yönetim biçimi olarakyaygınlaşmasına rağmen demokratik canlılığın azalmasına ilişkin çelişkisorunlaştırılmaktadır. Demokrasilerin demokratik ve özerk bireylere ihtiyaçduyduğu iddia edilmektedir. Bu nedenle Jean-Jacques Rousseaunun Emile ya daEğitim Üzerine adlı eseri ele alınmaktadır. Rousseaunun Emilei, özgürlüğe veeşitliğe düşkün, başkaları üzerinde tahakküm kurmanın, tahakküm altına alınmakkadar kötü olduğunu bilen özerk bir bireydir. Bu nitelikleriyle tam da demokratiktoplumlara uygun bireylerin yetişme prensiplerini somutlaştırır. Rousseaununkamusal ve özeli birleştiren demokratik önerilerinin Emile üzerinden bir kezdaha gözden geçirilmesi, demokrasinin sağlam ve kalıcı olmasında elzemdir.

RAISING DEMOCRATIC AND AUTONOMOUS INDIVIDUAL: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM JEAN- JACQUES ROUSSEAU S EMILE?

This article problematizes the paradox that nowadays democracy as a form ofgovernment has become widespread however simultaneously democratic spirithas been diminishing. It is argued that democracies need democratic andautonomous individuals. For this reason Jean-Jacques Rousseau s Emile or onEducation is analyzed. Rousseau s Emile is bound up in freedom and equality.He is an autonomous individual who knows that dominating others is as bad asbeing dominated. These qualities are concretization of the proper principles forraising individuals in democratic societies. Reconsideration of Rousseau sdemocratic suggestions in Emile that combine the public and the private seemsessential for making democracy strong and permanent.

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