Meanings and development of the idea of compromise: A political and philosophical discourse
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2022-03
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Philosophical Papers Journal of Department of Philosophy
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Bhattacharyya, Anureema
Joardar, Koushik
Mukherjee, Anirban
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University of North Bengal
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Mondal, A. (2022). Meanings and development of the idea of compromise: A political and philosophical discourse. Philosophical Papers Journal of Department of Philosophy, XVIII, 151–167. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4631
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The word compromise means a reciprocal promise to solve a dispute by the decision of an
impartial third party. The meaning of compromise has developed with its different forms across
the ages—from the classical meaning of compromise to its modern understanding. Philosophers
such as Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Morley, and AvishaiMargalit have often
discussed and commented on the idea of compromise and the ethics of compromise in their
political and philosophical discourse. Meaning of compromise has developed in the different
periods primarily on the basis of its different usages: as a tool, a virtue, and a principle.
This paper attempts to demonstrate the different meanings of compromise and its
connection with contractarianism and representation. Keeping in mind the differences in the
meanings of compromise across the ages and the differences in representation I have tried to
explain compromise in a comprehensive way. It is so because the political and philosophical
history of compromise shows differences as well as similarities regarding the meaning and
understanding of the word, especially while looking into the ethical aspects of it. The paper also
focuses on how the classical sense of ‘compromise’ had undergone a sudden change from the
early decades of the sixteenth century, and how the change persisted till the late eighteenth
century in European political and philosophical discourse.
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XVIII
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0976-4496
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151 - 167