Mizah meşrulaştırılmak zorunda mıdır?: Politik bir olgu olarak mizah üzerine bir araştırma

The purpose of this thesis would be to find the principles in order to justify humour in terms of ethics. Power element of humour would bring the need for justification of humour. It also creates the links between humour and the political and the humour and ethics. Political justification of humour would depend on political virtues such as justice and freedom and power relations. Therefore, humour can be justifiable politically as long as it degrades the dominants by the dominated ones. However, that would not be the case for ethical justification of humour since it will seek an answer at cosmopolitan level. Accordingly, justification of humour in terms of ethics is provided by Kantian principles, it would be the subjective decision depending on the Golden Rule for the author of humour.