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    A critique of Aristotelian evaluation of Euripides’s medea
    (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-03-25) Bilgili, Hanife
    Aristotle left a legacy of countless pages on many diverse topics such as biology, physics, metaphysics, politics and ethics. Of these many writings, one hasn't attracted the attention, at least not to the extent the others have, Poetics. Poetics deals mainly with poetry, but with tragedy in particular. In this work, Aristotle answers questions concerning this field, such as what makes a fine tragedy, what are the most important parts of a tragedy, what characteristics should a tragedy have, what makes a powerful plot, what magnitude should a fine tragedy be of, what qualities should a hero have, and what kind of a relation a good tragedy should establish with the audience. Aristotle refers to certain poets and their works as examples in answering these questions. One of these works, namely Medea was rewritten by the Greek poet Euripides in the 5th century BC. This study aims at giving an analysis of Euripides’s version of the famous tragedy of Medea, from an Aristotelian standpoint following the principles Aristotle sets in Poetics. In line with this objective I argue that Medea has been misunderstood or misjudged, especially about its supposed immoral plot and characters; and try to show how it in fact can be moral with an atypical conception of morality.
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    EU-Turkey refugee deal: Buck-passing and bargaining on human lives at risk?
    (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-03-25) Duarte, Melina
    Since the early stages, the EU-Turkey Refugee Deal has generated several controversies concerning its legal and moral standing. In the first section of this paper, for important informative purposes, I will briefly discuss several points related to how the legality of the deal could be contested. In the second section, I will turn my attention to a more detailed examination of whether the deal could be considered immoral with regard to two morally condemned practices, namely: buck-passing, or evasion of responsibility, and bargaining on human lives at risk. In the final section, I will attempt to outline guiding principles for a hypothetical deal that would be more responsive to the principles underpinning the Refugee Convention than the morally condemnable principles in the actual deal based on those two grounds discussed here.
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    “Homo Homini Lupus” sözü üzerine
    (Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2020-03-25) Özmakas, Utku
    Thomas Hobbes’un siyaset felsefesi ele alınırken en çok gönderme yapılan ifadelerden birinin “homo homini lupus”, yani “insan insanın kurdudur” sözü olduğu söylenebilir. Geleneksel yorum, düşünürün bu sözü, doğa durumundaki insanın halet-i ruhiyesini ve insanın doğasını betimlemek için kullandığını ileri sürmüştür. Ne var ki, bağlamından kopartılmış bu yorum pek çok açıdan yanlıştır. Bu yanlışın düzeltilebilmesi için öncelikle Hobbes’un düşüncesinde “metafor” kavramının yerinin ve öneminin tespit edilmesi gerekir. Böylelikle metaforun felsefi ve politik anlamı gözler önüne serilebilecektir. Bu makalenin esas amacı, Hobbes’un meşhur ifadesini yerli yerine oturtmak ve böylelikle doğru bilinen bir yanlışı düzeltmeye çalışmaktır. Buna bağlı olarak ikinci amacı da, kurt metaforunun kullanımının felsefi bir polemik içerdiğine dair ipuçlarına işaret etmektir.