Political Studies Graduate Program - Master Degree

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Political Philosophy And The Problem Of Poverty: A Hybrid Approach

(Institute of Social Sciences, 2019) Tecir, Cansu ; Kandiyalı, Jan ; 571585 ; Political Studies ; Siyaset Çalışmaları

Contemporary political philosophy has focused on theories of justice and inequality, however it has little to say about poverty. This is the source of my motivation for this thesis. By this thesis, I aim to find an answer to some questions of what poverty is, what is wrong with poverty, what contemporary theories of social justice imply for poverty and which approach in political philosophy best handles the problem of poverty. Then, in particular, I analyse three basic fundamental approaches within political philosophy namely utilitarian approach, resourcist approach and capabilities approach. Following that, I argue that a hybrid approach is more useful than sticking to only one of them, for it should be changing and developing according to different circumstances and conditions of being poor with a definition of poverty that partly combines traditional and contemporary definitions of poverty. The thesis is structured in the following way: I started with the thesis with a conceptual analysis of poverty in order to identify what definitions of poverty are and what it should be. In order to do that, I benefited from the thoughts of many traditional and contemporary thinkers such as Rowntree, Townsend and Sen briefly. Following that, in the first chapter,