JUSTICE FREEDOM AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY IN THE UZBEK GOROGLY CYCLE A SOCIAL PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
Published
November 9, 2026
Issue
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Global Scientific Innovations
Pages
1-6
Open Access · CC BY 4.0
Abstract
This article reads the Uzbek Gorogly cycle – twenty-seven epics recorded from the bakhshi Rahmatulla shoir Yusuf o‘g‘li (Tashkent, 2006) – as an axiological system organised around justice, freedom and collective responsibility. Eight passages, located by a lexical concordance of normative markers across all 448 pages and verified against page images, are analysed in the original with translation. Freedom appears as autonomy that cannot be received from an oppressor; justice operates first as a constraint on the hero’s own army; and Chambil is not an achieved utopia but a conditional order which the epic itself describes as having filled with oppression.
Keywords:
Gorogly epic, Central Asia, social justice, freedom, collective responsibility, oral heritage, axiology.
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