IDEAS OF NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION AND SOVEREIGNTY IN THE POLITICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS OF MAGHAKIA ORMANYAN AND LEVON SHANT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54503/2953-8165-2023.1(1)-33Keywords:
M. Ormanyan, L. Shant, sovereignty, right to self-determination, nation, legal subject, civilization, independenceAbstract
XIX-XX century’s geopolitical realities, constitutional and
national-liberation movements, and the change in Ottoman statelegal
order became the historic-political basis of the politicalphilosophical
constructs of the thinkers of that time. Due to the
military and diplomatic policies of the superpowers Full or
partial liberation of the people under the rule of the Ottoman
Empire was conceived by the Armenian nation as a historic
injustice against the Armenians and a violation of the principle of
the legal equality of the nations. In the context of these realities,
prominent political scientist-philosophers of that century
Maghakia Ormanyan (1841-1918) and Levon Shant (1869-1951)
argue for the fundamental ideas of civilizational identity,
protection of historical rights, political self-determination,
freedom of self-government of the Armenian nation, substantiate
independence and national-state sovereignty as highest values.
