ovdje - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

IVANA EMILY ŠKORO
Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Hrvatska /
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
JOHN LOCKE, ROPSTVO I TRGOVANJE LJUDIMA
Od javnog i općepriznatog sustava, koji je polovicom 19. stoljeća bio
priznat samo na američkom jugu, Kubi i Barbadosu, do moderne preobrazbe
u unosnu industriju koja obuhvaća gotovo cijeli svijet, trgovanje ljudima
je i danas velik i alarmantan problem. U ovom radu izložit ću podatke o
modernom ropstvu i objasniti povijesni razvoj koncepta ropstva uz pomoć
Američkog građanskog rata, događaja koji je potpuno ukinuo i promijenio
način na koji ljudi razumiju ideju ropstva, te Johna Lockea koji je poznat
kao »zadnji veliki filozof koji pokušava opravdati apsolutno i doživotno
ropstvo« (David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture).
JOHN LOCKE, SLAVERY, AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
From being a public and widely accepted system, which in the first
half of the 19th century was recognized only in the American South, Cuba,
and Barbados, to its modern transformation into a lucrative business that
encompasses almost the entire world, human trafficking is still a very big
and alarming problem. In this article I will lay out the information pertaining
to modern-day slavery and explain the historical transformation of the
concept of slavery with the help of the American Civil War, an event that
completely abolished and changed the way people understand the idea of
enslavement, and John Locke, who is known as “the last major philosopher
to seek a justification for absolute and perpetual slavery” (David Brion
Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture).
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