Serdar Tekin

Human Rights Foundation of Turkey
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    Üniversitenin Olağanüstü Hali
    Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı. 2019.
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    Between Modesty and Ambition: Remarks on The Concept of Liberal Democratic Law
    Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics 23 (2): 459-465. 2021.
    Johan van der Walt offers a modest conception of liberal democratic law as a groundless modus vivendi, while at the same time backing up this conception with an ambitious inquiry into the long history of Western metaphysics and the ways in which it shaped legal imagination. There are two main dimensions to my criticism of Van der Walt’s work, and they exactly divide between its modesty and ambition. I contend that the understanding of liberal democratic law as a modus vivendi is too modest insof…Read more
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    Founding Acts: Constitutional Origins in a Democratic Age
    University of Pennsylvania Press. 2016.
    All democratic constitutions feature "the people" as their author and ultimate source of legitimacy. They claim to embody the political form that citizens are in some sense supposed to have given themselves. But in what sense, exactly? When does a constitution really or genuinely speak for the people? Such questions are especially pertinent to our present condition, where the voice of "the people" turns out to be irrevocably fragmented, and people themselves want to speak and be heard in their o…Read more
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    How could Aristotle defend the self-sufficiency of political life while claiming the superiority of contemplative life?
    Kilikya Felsefe Dergisi / Cilicia Journal of Philosophy 3 (3): 13-26. 2016.
    In Nicomachean Ethics X.7, Aristotle argues that perfect happiness consists in contemplation alone. The question that I want to take up in this essay is whether the superiority of contemplative life fits with Aristotle’s argument for the self-sufficiency of the political life, according to which politics can lead us to happiness without being guided by philosophical knowledge of the highest sort. My basic argument is that, paradoxical as it may seem, Aristotle is led to acknowledge that contempl…Read more
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    The Politics of Founding in Focus
    Contemporary Political Theory 18 (2): 129-136. 2019.