The Concept of Divine Sovereignty Among Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jehovah’s Witnesses differ from Christian denominations because they reject the doctrine of the Trinity within Christianity. Jehovah’s Witnesses maintain that Jehovah is the only God and that there is no other God on earth apart from Jehovah. ...
A Story of Rebirth
Just as the Western philosopher Nietzsche said, “Love your own fate”, the voice of our land, Mevlâna, steps in and says, “Yesterday is gone, my dear; today we must speak of new things.” In other words, without getting bogged down in the ...
The Patriarchate Controversy and the Muftiate of Western Thrace: A Search for Balance
Under the Treaty of Lausanne, the Patriarchate’s presence in Turkey was maintained, but its political and administrative powers were stripped away, reducing it to the status of a purely religious institution. This transformation demonstrates that, ...
Turkish Philosophy and the Freedom of the Turkish Language
The issue of establishing Turkish as a language of science and philosophy has been discussed for many years. In the past, not only philosophical dictionaries have been written on this subject, but theoretical and critical studies have also been ...
Illness and Patience: A Trial That Begins in the Body and Descends to the Heart
Illness is a stop, not an identity. What they teach is ...
Living the Fundamentals of Stoicism Through Snowflakes
For example, ke watching snowfall settle on the ground, people who appreciate the value of the moment and embrace the motto ‘carpe diem’ adopt a robust fe flow, ke the Stoics, being resilient, able to make long-term plans, without losing ...
O Time, How Much Should I Sell or Buy You For?
Time is always new and always fresh; it never grows old, never decays, never moulders, and never rots. Everything else either depreciates or has a very short economic lifespan; but time depreciates by zero, and its economic lifespan lasts for humans ...
On the Memory of Water
In mythology, water is always the beginning. Life springs from it, then returns to it. People are born, grow up, are forgotten; yet the river remains the same river. What flows is time, not ...
Understanding Time
Neither a beloved who has been reunited with time, nor a policeman, nor a red light, nor a hand signal can stop time! On the contrary, there is no one whom time's ‘stop!’ warning or red light can ...
Preface to Turkish Metaphysics
When you say Islamic/Turkish Metaphysics, are you mplying an dentification? Or s t generally Islamic Metaphysics; specifically Turkish Metaphysics? Also, what s the relevance of the connection with the peoples of the Ural-Altaic language group ...
Is it Consistent to Reduce the Metaphysics of Wisdom to the Discipline of Sufism?
The aim of philosophy is to attain happiness, and logic is the key to this. Logic is studied both as a science/discipline and as an art. In this context, as an art, it provides the laws that will correct the mind as a whole and guide people to the ...
Consciousness and Awareness
The journey of philosophers (which I include Jiddu and Osho in) to understand the world and humanity invites people to move away from the constraints of capitalist society and search for their own ...
A Journey Through Anatolian Socialism via Abu Dhar al-Ghifari, Nurettin Topçu, and Adem Yakar
We do not accept the colonialist use of reason... Life is but a breath! In my high school years, we would read about Turkish nationalism through Ziya Gökalp. At the same time, we would also discuss texts from the Marxist ...
What is the Theseus Paradox? Why Does This Paradox Never End?
The ship hat brought Theseus, he legendary king of Athens, back from Crete with he young men of Athens had hirty oars. This ship was preserved by he Athenians until he ime of he Greek philosopher Demetrius Phalereus. The Athenians preserved ...
‘The Tao of Deception’ and ‘Unravelling Paradoxes’
If we were to speak in the context of Taoist tradition, could it be done by creating self-doubt through deceptive narratives, altering the opponent's implicit views through coercion, or by breaking up enemy ...
III. Turkish Islamic Political Thought Congress: Reading the Migration of Turks from their Ancestral Homeland to the West from the Perspective of Socialisation and Publicisation
Historically, does the term “public sphere” imply a limitation to “the state's domain”? Or, without separating the state and the public, what is the possibility of establishing a new understanding of publicness by expanding it to mean ‘the ...
Teopolitical Readings III: The Political Theology Struggles of Turkish, Persian, and Arab Minds, Three Styles of Thinking on Political Theology
We focus on reading the migration movements of the Turks in the context of socialisation and publicisation, and we try to understand their competition/struggle with the Chinese, Persian and Arab minds, while preserving their own differences, and the ...
Theopolitical Readings 2: The Dichotomy of Orthodox Belief and Heterodox Belief
The ead of the church defined by the term ‘Catholic,’ which means ‘universal,’ claims to ave infallible authority, sees imself as the successor of Saint Peter, the representative of Jesus, and states that there is no salvation outside of ...
Theopolitical Readings 1: Legitimising Economic-Political Conflicts through Theology
I interpret ‘theo-political conflicts’ as ‘leadership (presidency/leadership/management) and religious profiteering.’ Let me first ‘point the finger at ourselves’ from the perspective of Islamic thought history; then let us refer to the ...
My Quest for a Method to Move Quietly and Without Stirring Dust in a Noisy Environment
While constructing Seljuk-Ottoman history, we pay attention to reading previous Turkish history and metaphysical values holistically. To give an example, we investigate the contributions of Sunni Ottoman and Shiite Safavid ates, and Sunni-Mamluk ...
Creating Little Gods
Belief starts where the limits of knowledge cannot be overcome with the current level of learning. Belief is formed at the point where knowledge is either non-existent or insufficient. From the moment it is formed, it continues to exist unless it is ...
Who is Anaximander, the philosopher who paved the way for free thought?
According to Anaximander, the earth is the centre of the universe. The earth is not static and flat, but in the form of a cylinder whose width is greater than its length. The earth floats in the vacuum of air without resting on anything. In fact, ...
Freedom in Societies
Freedom means rebellion. Freedom means taking ownership of your own life and destiny. Obedience is slavery, rebellion means struggling to live a life with one's head held high. This choice is the essence of the ...
Thematising Turkish Philosophy
In order to draw a "Geo-Political and Geo-Cultural Map of the Turkic World" and to make a coherent analysis of today's political economy struggles, it is necessary to look at our migration routes following the trade (Silk) routes in the ancient ...
How does Ibn-i Khaldun describe the Arabs in his work called Muqaddimah?
The usual state of the Arabs is to be constantly on the move and to move from one place to another. However, this is contrary to and in conflict with the tranquillity and stability that social life ...
Can You Bathe in the Same River Twice?
According to Heraclitus, the universe is constantly changing through a process that has no beginning and no end. Everything that is now and at this moment is in constant change and flow, that is, "Everything flows." It flows just like the water of a ...
Culture of Bias
Many cult leaders may be showing people the religiously correct path. But here is the problem. Do people need someone to take the right path? Can't they live their faith on their ...
Apple and Humanity
In religious references, they were expelled from paradise together because Eve wanted Adam to eat the forbidden In fact, since the apple she bit into got stuck in Adam's throat, some people call that protrusion in his throat the Adam's ...
Nietzsche and his work The Destruction of Idols
According to Mussolini, the fascist leader of Italy, fascism is nothing but the implementation of Nietzsche's ideas. Hitler, too, saw his political action as the realisation of Nietzsche's aims. ...
What is Islamism in the Light of Geo-Political Debates?
‘If the Ottoman Empire had accepted the offer of participation of the Entente (Britain, France, Russia and the United States of America), would a policy called Islamism have been produced?’ This is one of the questions I am looking for an answer ...
Love is the Magic Medicine for Many Things
Underlying the distancing of love from us is undoubtedly the fact that materialism, which is rapidly overtaking our spiritual world and values, is shaking the vital foundations of our lives. ...
Why is it good to be grateful?
Like the seagulls, I imagined the bodies of human beings dancing on this infinitely beautiful blue. As I watched, I once again witnessed how precious our organs are, which God has bestowed on us ...
What do you think we need to do to be happy?
Is it possible to be happy all the time? Of course not, but it is in our power to increase the times we are happy. Life is not stable for all of us. What is true for all of us is the fact that only beautiful moments will remain from the story of a ...
Thoughts on Morality, Generosity and Patience
The basic points that give people real peace and happiness are never brought to the agenda. No one talks about the secrets of good morals, generosity, truthfulness, patience and a balanced life. These basic virtues are almost ...
As long as evil exists, Yazidis will never end
Those who believe and live the ideas of the Prophet in the most determined way and by what right could Yazid, who brutally massacred the descendants of the Prophet, become the caliph of ...
Philosophy of Existentialism
According to existentialism, the purpose of education is to provide the individual with the opportunity to develop his own individuality by teaching that human freedom is superior to everything ...
What are the Distorting Effects of Some Sects and Congregations on the Structure of Turkish Society?
Generally speaking, sects and congregations are closed structures. You know, what goes on behind closed doors doesn't really leak ...
Expatrition is a Wound in All of Us
Living in expatriation begins when the people who experience it are alone with themselves. They either isolate themselves from the environment or isolate the environment from themselves. ...
Can a debtor be free person?
Perhaps the only person we can talk about as a free man is naked Adam. Individual freedom ended after Eve appeared and ate the ...
What is the Influence of Sumerians on Abrahamic Religions?
Sumerians believed that all events in the world were written in the stars in the sky. It is said in the Quran that it is written on the "protected tablet" in the sky (Sura 22:2). Sumerians believed that people's fate was written in bricks, so we say ...
What is Faith? What is Religion? How were the rules of religion written? Is There Divine Justice?
The etymological dictionary says that the "din" from the Arabic root "dyn" means "law". There is the Persian "dēn". It is noted that it means the religion of Ahuramazd or Zoroastrian religion, that is, its laws. In Aramaic/Syriac, the ...
Looking at the World through the Window of Love, Falling in Love
To love yourself s to know and love your self, your soul. When a person honestly looks at their past, filled with thousands of memories, they see a huge garbage dump. It s not possible to love oneself unless this garbage filled with shame, guilt, ...
What is the Ordinary Person's Relationship with Philosophy? What Does Philosophy Do?
One can use philosophy as a problem-solving tool, or one can use it to make sense of every phase of one's In this respect, philosophical thought is not only limited to academic circles, but can also exist as a part of daily ...
Is it possible to be happy in the reality of war and peace?
I would like to remind those who are not aware of the danger of war, those who are war-mongering with empty dreams, those who are more Arabist than Arabs that we live in Anatolia, the last Turkish land, in Turkey, which we did not give to the ...
What is Armageddon? Is it a Madness? Or is it someone's passionate obsession?
Armageddon is the name of the great apocalyptic war that is said to take place at the end of the world. Christians call it Armageddon and Muslims call it Melhame-i Kübra. According to this belief, those who will fight in Armageddon are the heavenly ...
Life means Consciousness. Cogito, Ergo Sum
The desire to survive is the most important human drive. How did this urge arise throughout history? How did this knowledge become engraved in our genes? This is an impulse that exists not only in us humans, but in all living ...
It All Started With That First Fence
With the drawing of the first fence, everything under the firmament was everyone's, but suddenly whoever had the power became the owner of the goods. This is the main thing that starts the fight between the strong and the ...
Catching the Lights of Tolstoy's Works in Our Lives
Tolstoy's mind was fired y the thought that nothing lasts forever. People were dying, things were rotting, fame was fading and great moments were passing away. In those days, the great writer lamented, "Sooner or later, everything I have done will ...
How was I take a deep soul under the shadow of Profesor Hüseyin ATAY?
My teacher Atay, in my opinion, did not like al-Ghazali at all, he considered him as an important breaking point in the history of Islamic thought, and this may have been the reason why he got angry in the class. ut when I took lessons from Mehmet ...
Resetting Life, Starting Over
You have established a life for yourself, you have an order one way or another. You have experienced many things, bitter and sweet. How can you erase everything and start life all over again? Is it possible to do such a ...
How did Tolstoy reflect his love for humanity in his works?
Tolstoy opened his eyes to this world as a Russian nobleman and got off the train at a railway station in poverty and misery on this life path. I find Tolstoy's life as worth analysing as the novels he wrote. ...
Brains? Intelectuals?
Leaving the mind and heart aside, why do we act only with our corporeal organs, which are found in all of creation? Unfortunately, we have a social structure that generally does not use its mind. From the past to the present, we have a ready-made ...
How did we have different languages?
One of the things I wonder is what happened after Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise. For example, since we have so many different languages, could it be t something happened t caused the people on earth not to understand each other, ...
The Straitjackets Put on Our Minds What Are Isms, What Are They Not?
In the words of Cemil Meriç, Isms are the straitjackets put on our perceptions. Their reputation comes from their origin. They are all European.' In fact, each ology is a collection of as. Typically, each ology claims to contain certain ...
Why Living Without Being a Pinwheel is the Right Way of Life?
A person who turns like a pinwheel does not hesitate to take every shape and mould for his own benefit. If they say about someone, "Leave him, he is like a whirligig, what you trust him?" and the person called a whirligig hears this, he still ...
How is the age of the universe calculated?
We ll have our date of birth written on our birth certificate. None of us can remember the moment we were born, even our younger years, until certain ge our memories re quite vague, we don't remember most of them, but we know our ge. Age is ...
Can Islamic and Christian Civilisations Coexist Today?
Attempting to bring a rational approach to the East, armed with Western sciences, to solve the problems in the East means rejecting intuitive reason. In other words, it is completely wrong to attempt to solve the problems in the East through western ...
Some Things Even Time Doesn't Age
It is as if the universe starts to boil when the water in a pot gets hot enough, there is no single point where that boiling starts, you know, when the water starts to boil, boiling starts almost everywhere in the pot at the same time. As if the ...
Introduction to understanding the historical course of Turkish philosophy and Turkish philosophy
It is necessary to make readings in the context of the project we call "Re-domesticating Philosophy in Anatolia", to examine the processes after the Turks became Muslims, that is, after they adopted a new conception of knowledge, science and ...
Happy Eid al-Adha
Where did this sacrifice come from? Actually, offering something to the gods s sacrifice is habit that dates back to human history. In ncient times, in order to void the wrath of the gods, mankind thought that if he offered something to them ...
An example of partisan historiography in the Abbasids with the historian, his teacher and his student
In our time, too, there are writers who are supported by states. The Yassiada trials and Wiki leaks revealed which writers were paid and how much. Based on this fact, articles and news shared or published in various media should be investigated and ...
A Breath of Philosophy (Final Chapter): Everlasting Philosophy for an Open Society
In order to be able to say "Perpetual Philosophy for an Open Society", the tradition of coordinated study of philosophy, theology and Sufism disciplines should continue in the theology faculties of the Republic of Turkey, which is a secular, ...
A Breath of Philosophy 34: May 19, 2023 Is the Expression of Turkish Philosophy "Discrete"?
In previous articles, we have examined why the will of the founders of the Republic of Turkey chose to establish a state by retreating to Anatolia, and the cultural continuity of Turkistan-Turkey for a geo-philosophical reading of these lands in the ...
Freedom
The greatest condition for being free is to be able to live with dignity and fight for it. Freedom is the name of the most important field of struggle that people can die for. We all know the saying about freedom. "Freedom is not given, it is ...
A Breath of Philosophy 33: Turkish Philosophy as a Foundation for Feeling Belonging to the Republic of Turkey
In is sense, it is consistent to start e expression of Turkish ought and Turkish culture in Turkish history and geography in e language of philosophy with a power to give universal messages to e world with e Republic of Turkey. Because ...
Sometimes It's Not Enough to Do a Good Thing, You Have to Do the Right Thing
Every day the same way, this time she has to make the team, she trains very hard. The coach says we are selecting players for the volleyball team. She has been practicing basketball for six months. The coach doesn't pick her for the ...
Life is Struggle
In fact, for all of us, what we call struggle for life begins with birth and ends with death. In this period of time, in order for people to survive and get what y want from life, y have to be in a constant struggle and, more generally, ...
A Breath of Philosophy 32: Understanding the Philosophy of the Founding of the Republic of Turkey: Anatolia and GeoPolitical Sensitivity
All ideas and movements that emerged with fundamentally different contents were aimed at solving the problems in the relationship between essence and identity at the foundation stage. The Republic of Turkey was founded centered on Anatolia with the ...
"God Almighty"
The modernizing state within the design of ion had to modernize Islam as well. This was certainly not a policy of eradicating Islam, but rather a desire to carry Islam along with legal and social reforms within the scope of total ...
Friendship and Loyalty
"Our childhood was blue. Hope wherever we turn, loyalty to whomever we cling. They stole the childhood of our pockets," the poet had said. Ah Attila Ilhan ah! What a simple and sincere Turkish you expressed our lost values. Inspired by you, I wrote ...
A Cracked World
We humorously try to adjust the cities and their weather to get a grip on ourselves. However, it is not a joke, we are living a reality. I do not disagree with those who say t the world has gone mad. Indeed, the nail is out, but I also believe ...
A Breath of Philosophy 31: Philosophy as the Art of Exploring and Producing Concepts: Establishing a Relationship between Thought and Citizenship
In order to contribute to the Re-Homelanding of Philosophy in Anatolia, we read "Hellenistic philosophy", which harmonizes the philosophy that was carried to Athens and the Aegean cities through the Alexandria line, which included Jewish and Islamic ...
Special for Eid
We used to know a beauty called neighborliness. Does anyone know where it moved to? No one. These recent events and the holiday have caused me to break my normal routine and write this article. Maybe in these days of unhappiness and lies and deceit, ...
A Breath of Philosophy 30: An Effort to Understand the Founding Philosophy of the Republic of Turkey: Reading Anatolia from a Geo-philosophical Perspective
Turks, one of the ancient nations with a continuous state tradition in history, conquered the lands on the Silk Road, which connected the Eastern and Western worlds and was the pivot of civilization for centuries, consolidated their sovereignty ...
The Philosophy of Managing Life
Man has also adapted what is called time as a measure of life. Why do you think human beings transform life into time and make efforts to add and value to it? There will be those of us who will answer this question by saying, "Life is ...
A World Without Lies?
Sometimes they cover up the truth, sometimes they create a reality of their own, even if it is a virtual one. No matter how honest you are, everyone lies in one way or another every day. The only way not to lie is to not communicate with anyone. And ...
A Breath of Philosophy 29: Historicity as a Methodological Problem in Overcoming the Current Problems of Islamic Civilization
Those who have read previous articles know that we have been discussing historicity and universality for some time. The last question posed for the relevant file of the journal Yetkin Düşünce (5/20:2022) was as follows: What kind of method should ...
Longing and Hope for the Beautiful
Wherever people are in the world, wherever there is beauty, they should always seek it. However, today's people are greedily and tirelessly looking for when they can get rich, the soil is polluted, our underground water resources have dried up, our ...
Zarathustra
According to , God created men and women together and as friends. In this belief, men and women are considered equal. In the regions where developed and spread, polygamy decreased and monogamy increased. In ...
A Breath of Philosophy 28: Understanding a Historical Phenomenon and Event: Isn't It Possible to Be Independent Without Being Independent?
Thinkers are our companions and the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is our guide. Therefore, when we focus on syllogism and its types as a logical inference in Logic class, we center on the hadith of Muaz b. Jabal. As we begin with Farabi's book, The ...
A Breath of Philosophy 27: Historical and Universal Reading of the Qur'an as an Effort for Spiritual Understanding
We are launching our project "Re-establishing Philosophy in Anatolia" with al-Fārābī, because he is he one who brought philosophy back o its original home. What I mean by his is hat just as Aristotle ransformed ancient Greek philosophy into ...
To be able to see the Truth behind the visible.
No matter how high a standard a person lives, here are storms raging inside, here is a void. Like emotion and callousness, like love and humility, here are hings hey ignore, hings hey cannot face. So everyone has a lack and loneliness. Maybe ...
What are Normal and Abnormal Human Behavior Patterns?
Those who cause trouble in any business are not liked. If you have taken office in a political party, then you are expected to restrain yourself from saying things that the chairman does not like. This is the format, this is the expectation. ...
A Breath of Philosophy 26: Historicity, Historicism, Universality: "The Test of Faith"
We were discussing these concepts intensively during my time as a university student and assistant. I don't know what you mean by mythology when you say whether historicity is the opposite of universality or mythology. Because if we talk in terms of ...
Is There Such a Thing as a Quantum Leap?
There is a theory called quantum theory, which is based on a odel of subatomic particles called the standard odel, on which some calculations have been ade and this odel has been tested with some experiments. So far, there is no doubt that the ...
Morocco Travel Note 3: A City in Marrakech, Morocco; Fes:
This place is also a Unesco World Heritage Site. Its library is a kind of memory of the world. In terms of my field, it is the only copy of Ibn Tufayl's "Urjuze fi't-medicine", a work of seven thousand seven hundred couplets. One of the "most ...
Becoming an Intellectual
As I have stated in many of my articles, human beings have free will, which allows them to be guided not by their instincts, but by their powers of thought and emotions. Free will creates the concepts of good-bad, right-wrong, sin-wrong, ...
A breath of philosophy #25: How can Turks do Turkish Philosophy when they use Persian as an official language?
In our opinion, the beginning of the study of the development of Turkish philosophy should be based on the Turkish written language that was established and developed by the Oghuzs in Anatolia after the XI century. It should be prioritized to follow ...
On Thought, Reason and Knowledge
"No obstacle can resist the power of reason," said Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and philosopher. Albert Einstein's "one cannot achieve anything unless one pushes the limits of reason" and Chinese writer and linguist Lin Yutang's "a wise man reads ...
If I say I object to nonsense, will it be heard?
Yes, I object! We have started to encounter so many abnormal and annoying events in our daily lives that it is hard not to object. I object to people's inability to tolerate each other and their constant ...
A Breath of Philosophy: Reading the Homelanding of Philosophy in Anatolia through the Presidential Amblem
The coat arms, which is placed wherever the President the Republic is present; on the flagpole, on his desk, on his fice car, has been in use since 1922. The symbol consisting a sun and 16 stars around it is called the Presidential Coat ...
Finding the Right Path with Your Own Mind
A goal that will get you out of bed in the morning with excitement, a few close friends, looking at life with hope, living as simply as possible should be the main goal for us ...
We Live in Other Worlds
I wouldn't be aware of it if I didn't exist! The question arises in my mind, how can we be sure how real the existence of life is? I am trying to understand. I exist that I am trying to understand, and you exist that you are reading this ...
Why is a change of mentality in politics necessary?
Some societies call changes in mentality a revolution. If we think of a country as a vehicle, for example a train, if the engineer driving it is not skilful and competent in changing the switches, the train will not be able to take its passengers to ...
Philosophy in passing: The Authenticity of Islamic Philosophy and its Projections on the Turkistan-Turkey (Anatolia) Line
In the light of the divine revelations brought by the Prophet uhammad, he confronted the history of wisdom/philosophy and created a new vision of knowledge, science and civilisation unique to himself. In this context, al-Kindī, known as the first ...
What Does "Knowing Yourself" Mean?
Can a person who does not discover himself know himself? Ever since man began to look at himself as if he were looking at himself in a mirror, that is, ever since he developed the ability to divide himself as if he were two people and to be both the ...
Earthquake and Facts
First of all, we must realise that as long as we do not learn from what happened, as long as those responsible are not held to account, as long as we continue to cover up our mistakes on grounds that do not fit with reason and science, it is ...
A Breath of Philosophy 22: Pre-Islamic Foundations of Turkish Metaphysics
while preserving the difference of the Turkish Conception of Islam from the conception produced by the Arab and Persian Mind, we say that the Turks, who have the teachings of the Prophets before the system brought by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), ...
Is it possible to renew ourselves like an eagle?
Eagles re one of the longest-living bird species. They can live for 70, 80 years. But when they reach their forties, they must make n important choice. Since their long nd flexible claws wear out over the years, their sharp beaks bend nd blunt, ...
Hope is the Key to Life
100 years ago, like our ancestors who cleared this country from the enemy, we will remove all the earthquake debris and rebuild 11 provinces from scratch. 100 years ago the whole country was in ruins. Anatolian people, who were only 13 million at ...
A Breath of Philosophy 21: Turkish Renaissance and its Metaphysical Foundations
We argue that the study of Turkish philosophy and its metaphysical foundations in the context of Islamic philosophy can only begin with the Turkish written language that was established and developed by the Oghuz in the Anatolian region after the ...
Is a Virtuous Life Away from Fault Lines Possible?
Those who choose to fight with nature have always ost this war. Living in harmony with nature, iving a ife by reading nature, istening to earth scientists and istening to the voice of science, not being a slave to rent, staying away from fault ...
Reflections on the Problem of Morality and Style After the Earthquake
With he proliferation of media outlets, he quality of politics has declined while its polyphony has increased. This can be easily observed with he approach of general elections. The leaders of political parties do not conduct heir propaganda in ...
A Breath of Philosophy: Metaphysics as First Philosophy: Theology
We have seen that an understanding centered on the concept of verifiability began to emerge with Bacon, with Aristotle as the first teacher and Avicenna as the second teacher of philosophy, that there were periods when metaphysics was seen as ...
A Breath of Philosophy 19: Is There a Basis for Considering Metaphysics as Idle Chatter and Blabbering?
"A Breath of Philosophy 18" was about philosophy-i ula (metaphysics), which Muslim philosophers see as the wisdom of wisdoms and the art of arts, and the thinkers who make the above claims. Ironically, it was Bacon who triggered the process of ...
The Philosophy of Understanding, Explaining and Most Importantly Being Understood
Mevlana says, "Don't worry when people misunderstand you, what they hear is your voice, but what they think is their own thoughts." ...
Philosophy in Lyrics
I listened to "Hayat Bayram Olsa" (Life is a Holiday) with Turkish lyrics written on an Israeli melody in the silence of the morning with great awe and reminisced about my past. The 70s and 80s suddenly came to my mind. The singer was Şenay, one of ...
Every Man Lives With His Serum
The claws of the past and the future are so strong on us that just as we are about to fall under the spell of the ment, we are suddenly jumped by the projection of a memory or the fear of a possibility, and we destroy the magic of that beautiful ...
A Breath of Philosophy 18: Metaphysics; Is it Blabbering and Dry Noise?
"Yes, it is so, metaphysics is meaningless, it consists of chatter and empty delusions", say the Positivists. With Roger Bacon, the founder of experimental philosophy/science and the founder of Western new-age positivism, metaphysics, like ...
Philosophy on Morality and Virtue
Ethics (moral philosophy), a sub-branch of philosophy, is the most important field that shows that an understanding of morality and virtue can be developed outside the religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. ...
Defense of Socrates
The word "philosopher" is formed by the juxtaposition of the Greek words philei and sophia. This word first means "friend of knowledge and wisdom" and then "one who gives life to knowledge and questions it". The prerequisite for this is to be ...
A Breath of Philosophy 17: Al-Ghazālī; State Official or System Thinker?
When it came to the issue of "al-Ghazālī is anti-philosophical, that's why you are saying these things", I stopped the discussion. However, in the presentation, I said that criticality is essential in philosophical thought and that the basic ...
Philosophy of Dreams and Realities
When we act like someone else and live like someone else, we abandon our dreams along with ourselves. The moment we give up being ourselves, we give up our dreams and we pay the price with unhappiness. ...
A little philosophy, a little psychology
The ego's only concern is to protect itself gainst nything that threatens the security of its own self-imposed boundaries, which re determined by cultural nd social beliefs. For this, he develops many self-consistent defense mechanisms. Walking ...
The Problem of Legal Personhood of Religious Buildings
Belief is potentially dangerous the moment it is socialized. This belief becomes even more dangerous when it is combined with material interests. What is meant by material interest here is not just monetary value, but any interest that mediates a ...
Bir Nefes Felsefe 16: Tehāfut al-falāsifa; The Inconsistency of the Philosophers or Al-Ghazālī's Misdirection and Misleading?
As is known, his characterization of the inconsistencies of philosophers as takfir in three issues in al-Thāfut al-falāsifa, which is basically a cosmological question of when and how the universe was created, is seen to have been a very effective ...
A Breath of Philosophy 15: Al-Ghazālī; Is Logic a Science of Heresy or a Criterion of Thinking?
Al-Ghazālī was an extremely influential scholar in the introduction of logic to the Islamic world, but we should also remember the context in which these works of logic were written. In this case, in the context of the connection between ideas and ...
A Breath of Philosophy 14: Did al-Ghazālī End Philosophy in the Islamic World?
I would also like to remind you that al-Ghazālī's education was mostly in religious disciplines (fiqh, hadith, theology/aka'id, grammar) but not in the positive sciences such as mathematics, geometry, astronomy, physics, etc., which examine how ...
Life Goes On Even If The Life Train Leaves Some Of Us At The Stops
Even though we know we will get off the train, not knowing when we will get off is a conundrum for all of us. Actually, this conundrum is the most beautiful, that is, not knowing. Isn't the fact that we don't know at which of these stops we will get ...
Minarets Bayonets, Domes Helmets
Islamically, the first call to prayer was heard in 622. Before the migration to Medina, it means that Muslims were using other methods to call for prayer. Because the migration to Medina, i.e. the "Hijra", was also in 622 (the beginning of the Hijri ...
A Breath of Philosophy 13: How Many Ghazālīs Are There?
Abu Hamid l-Ghazālī (1058-1111) was jurist, logician, mutakallim, Sufi, nd landmark scholar in Islamic thought. During the Seljuk period, especially under the patronage of Nizam l-Mulk, he was in very good position in terms of uthority ...
The Unending Struggle in the World of Science, Philosophy and Faith: Part-3
Al-Ghazali and Rushd are two milestones in the Islamic Knowledge of these two scholars is the key to understanding the roots of many things in the Islamic ...
Islamic philosopher who left his mark on the West: Ibn Rushd.
Ibn Rushd's father, known as "Averroes" in Europe, was a scholar who worked as a qadi in Kurtuba. Ibn Rushd, who started his education life by taking lessons from distinguished teachers, learnt basic religious sciences from his father. In addition ...
A Breath of Philosophy 12: What is this "analytical" reading of Islamic philosophy?
An attentive "reader" ill note that you treat the pioneers of Islamic Philosophy as living figures in terms of their presence in contemporary philosophy. By this, you mean not only doing comparative philosophy but also endeavouring to philosophise ...
The Unending Struggle in the World of Faith, Philosophy and Science: Part-1
Ghazali is undoubtedly a very important figure. His perspective on the world and his interpretations are still being debated, even though nearly 1000 years have passed since his death. He is commented on by thinkers and writers of our Sufi and ...
Charisma is Inborn
Whether a person is charismatic or not can be understood at first glance. But it is difficult to describe what makes that person charismatic. Nicole Torres says, "Charisma is hard to define, but when you see a charismatic person, you know it ...
A Breath of Philosophy: 11 "Everything in the universe is alive" and "Everything chants God"
As Friedrich Nietzsche, who endeavoured to get rid of the "Twilight of the Idols", which I once used as an introduction to the Philosophy of Religion course, said, Thales tried to get rid of myth and allegory, because the understanding of nature ...
A Breath of Philosophy 10: How did al-Fārābī place Prophethood at the Center of Political Philosophy?
Compared to Aristotle's tripartite classification of the sciences as theoretical, practical, and poetic, and al-Kindī's binary classification as humanistic and religious sciences, al-Fārābī's more comprehensive and unique classification as ...
What is the Relationship between Religion and Science?
Emile Durkheim said, "Religion is a system of rites and beliefs that enables a community to come into being." Durkheim based this definition on the social function of religion in ...
Is it easy to give up?
The more ttached you re, the harder it is to let go? That's why human beings, even if it's small ssumption, should not be so ttached to whatever it is that they re ttached to with ll their being, with ll their being, that they get carried ...
A breath of philosophy 9: How and Why Did God Create the Universe?
As we have stated in our previous articles on "A Breath of Philosophy", there is no unity, identity and interpenetration between God and the universe (ittihat and hulul). Prophets provide the physical and metaphysical connection through an ...
Transition from Matter to Spirit
With love, who knows what hormones are activated in our body, a smile immediately appears on our face, for example, happiness is completely different, I hink hey called it endorphins. Fear causes very different chemical and physical reactions. I ...
A Breath of Philosophy 8: Does the expression "Hikmetü'l-Meşrikiyye" correspond to "Eastern Philosophy"?
Like Analytic Philosophy, which states that the main function of philosophy is analysis, the term Western Philosophy is also fuzzy despite all impositions. You know that the term Hellenistic Philosophy is also a modern term, based on the ...
A Breath of Philosophy 7: Did Muslim Philosophers Overcome Theopolitical Conflicts in the Early Period of Islam?
I think that Farabi, who was the first philosopher to construct Islamic philosophy as a system, was aware of these tensions and examined the classification of sciences and method in more detail, which can be seen as an effort to overcome the traumas ...
Tengri Belief in Turks and Tengricism
In Turkic mythology, the traditional belief of the ancient Turks and Mongols, known today as Tengricism, was until recently called Turkic Shamanism. However, since the 1990s, the name Tengrism has become increasingly common among Western scholars ...
Who was the first Islamic philosopher?
We care about al-Kindī in terms of translations and his contributions to philosophy. But in our opinion, al-Jābir deserves to be described as a philosopher before him. Raised and educated in Tus, the ancient capital of Khorasan, he also conducted ...
Morality and Virtue
Life is an adventure, and we are the actors whose roles have been assigned in it. Each of us in our own lives are like artists who do not know when the curtain will close and we will leave the stage. When we look at the facts of our lives, we see ...
What is the Correspondence of "Man is what he is at seventy" in Moral Philosophy?
It examines Islamic Moral Philosophy centered on three basic questions (free will, right ction nd the highest good) nd sks the person who has free will to rationally evaluate his/her options nd ct in ccordance with the right knowledge (salih ...
Why is it necessary to make peace with our past?
To reject the past is to give up on a better future. Man is a product of his past. Every human being should accept his/her past with maturity, whatever has happened as part of his/her identity, knowing that his/her future is built on ...
How Fair Is Nature Treating Us?
How fair is it to interfere with nature? How ethical is it? Does anyone realize what might happen if one ay someone ecides to play God? What if that pretender to the role of God one ay tampered with genes and caused the creation of completely ...
How consistent is the takfir of the Peripatetic philosophers at the root of the opposition to Islamic philosophy?
The Peripatetic school, represented by such well-known hilosophers as Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina and Averroes, made considerable use of Aristotle's books translated into Arabic, as well as his commentaries written by Neo-Platonist commentators and ...
Is it Possible that Living a Life Without Missing a Beat
I wish someone would shake me, but there is no need. As we let our thoughts drift into the salty and warm waters of the Mediterranean, we question ourselves as to why we didn't recognize lost love sooner. Most of the time, the feelings we accumulate ...
Is the Classification of Domestic and Foreign Sources Consistent in the Formation Process of Islamic Philosophy?
Since philosophy basically aims to increase the options and contribute to possible solutions, we remind you what you do in the face of a problem by citing the hadith of Muaz b. Jabal as an example: First, I look at the Qur'an, then I look at your ...
A Breath of Philosophy: Getting to the Root of Attachment
Let's not ask whether a theist or a monist who believes in a God is called an atheist or a materialist, because there is also transtheism, which explores the possibility of an atheistic or non-atheistic philosophy of religion. There is also pateism, ...
Fear is useless
The most dominant f these feelings in human life is fear. In fact, fear is also a dominant emotion in the living world. Yes, fear is an emotion we develop subconsciously for the continuation f life. Throughout history, we have always been afraid ...
Turkish Thought? Turkish Philosophy?
We will try to "contemplate" on the question "Turkish Thought or Turkish Philosophy?". Within the history philosophy, is it more consistent to examine what the Turks have produced on existence, knowledge and value within the context "History ...
Status Maniacs
The desire for and pursuit of status is almost as old as human history. Since the earliest periods of history, people have often divided society into classes for apparent socio-economic reasons. At their most basic level, these classes determine ...
Understanding Guy Debord's Society of Spectacle
Born in Paris in 1931, Debord lost his father at an early age. He left his law education at the University of Paris and focused on art studies. Debord also published many poems and articles during this period. In the movement of the 1968 generation, ...
Iraq: The Conflict Center of Arab and Persian Shiism
The fact that a year after the Iraqi elections, the government has still not been formed and internal conflicts have increased shows the gravity of the situation. If you remember, in June 2022, MPs loyal to the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, the ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
One of the intellectuals who shaped Atatürk's life of ideas and freedom was Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ...
Key and Password
We got the word "cipher" from French, meaning "number", "digit", "code". "Key" is etymologically Greek word, noichtíri, meaning "opener", "opener". The oldest Turkish source containing the word "key" is 14th century Turkish translation of ...
Elephants And Cats
The word "cibilliyet" is known as a word of Arabic origin. The word cibilliyet is used in TDK records in the sense of temperament and character from . This word, which is generally known among the people as "cibilliyetsiz", means bad ...
What are the Contradictions of Philosophers?
Since the leaders and philosophers who shaped history are human beings, they have contradictions in the sea of life and thought. Contradictions in ideas and behaviors are an inevitable sociological reality in human nature. We have a proverb in ...
The Person That I Want to Be
Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, is the author who best describes how successful a person is in life and how to measure it. According to Christensen, there are 6 steps to living a successful life and measuring ...
Stop the world, someone needs to land
At the equator, the earth is currently rotating around itself at a speed of 1667 kilometers per hour. 150 million years ago this speed was 1905 km/h. Compared to today, the earth was spinning about 15% faster. 1% in 10 million years is slowing it ...
What is the Psychology of Guilt?
I guess those who commit crimes unknowingly or involuntarily feel a sense of guilt. Especially if it is the first time they have committed a crime, they probably suffer the consequences inwardly. They probably have a guilty ...
What Does Freedom to Commit a Crime Mean?
What is a crime? Behavior against the law, sometimes against customs, against morality. Who determines what is a crime and what is not? Throughout history, society has determined it, and customs have been established. Today, parliament and MPs are ...
Life is Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The positive and logical steps we took yesterday will help us spend today properly. We cannot ignore yesterday. Yesterday is not disconnected from today. ...
Why is it Freedom to Decide?
One of the rules is the uncertainty principle, a principle like. At the level of subatomic particles, that is, in the quantum world, if you measure the speed of a particle, you don't know its position, that is, exactly where it is at that moment. ...
What's the Brutus Story?
According to legend, Brutus was Caesar's closest friend. It is rumored that Caesar first tried to resist the aggressors, but when he saw Brutus, he said these words (Et tu, Brutus?) and stopped resisting. There is no evidence that Caesar uttered ...
The Balance of the Universe What is the Golden Ratio?
We set the rules, one line, first make five straight copies, spaced this far, then circularly copy them all, ten copies. Then copy all five times at regular intervals, then circularly copy again. If you continue like this, you end up with an ...
How to Resolve Disputes in Business Life?
A review of concepts and techniques for constructive conflict resolution results in the following conclusion: “The interests of all those who share the risk and are involved must be respected.” ...
Thoughts to Myself
The world we live in is a really tiring place for all of us. In fact, it is a place that is wearisome, ungrateful, requires constant effort and struggle, but rarely rewards people. Over time, as you get older, you get tired of loving a world that ...
What is Thinking? What is the benefit?
My aim with this article is not to take you on a journey into the history of thought. But I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the value of thinking is not sufficiently understood in our country, and that the necessary value is not ...
What is a Balanced Life?
A nimalist lifestyle actually means getting leaner. Consider just some of the benefits of living with less stuff. Makes room for what's really important in your life, clearing out unimportant drawers and cabinets provides more space and peace of ...
What is Galaxy Horoscope?
You know, a glass full of water has the effect of a lens, it shows what's behind it upside down, what we're looking at is upside down. This also happens in the ...
The Philosophy of Good and Bad
The concepts of good nd evil; The criterion used when evaluating religion in terms of ethics nd philosophy is morality. While the concept of good has positive meaning in terms of morality, the set of objects, wishes nd behaviors that evoke ...
Ecopolitical Conflicts in the First Period of Islam
This article is "When we look at the political and economic conditions in the period of our Prophet, we see that there were Roman, then Byzantium in the West, and Persians in the East, Sassanid states, but why are the Turks and the states they ...
The World Turns, No matter whatever you say
We don't really stop where we stand in the universe, even if we don't realize it. We are in constant motion at great speed. Maybe the secret is here, maybe our life energy stems from ...
Turkish and philosophy
The studies on he erminology of he words used in philosophy were started before he Language Congress convened by he Turkish Language Association in 1942. Professors from universities were also invited o his congress and heir houghts on new ...
Turkish Renaissance
He passed to the "Middle Nation(t)" stage with Sultan Baybars and Yavuz Sultan Selim, who took the Kipchak Turks from the Mamluk state, who proclaimed and thus provided religious legitimacy to his ...
Turkish Mind (Shiite and Sunni) Imagination of Islam
ugrul Bey and Sunni (Hanefi-Shafii); In order to understand the historical foundations of Shah Ismail and the Turkish Shiite (Imâmiyya) conception of Islam, it is necessary to talk about the sons of Bermeki-Buveyhi in the Abbasid ...
Turkish Type Muslim Conception
the first Muslim Turkish dynasty's beginning with the Karakhanids (940-1040), the Ghaznavids (963-1187), the Great Seljuks (1040-1157), the Anatolian Seljuks (1075-1308), the Mamluks (1250-1517) and the Ottomans ( 1299-1922) we are talking about a ...
Fatimid and Abbasid Cultural War Centers
As the leader of the Nizari-Ismailis (al-Ismâîliyyetü'l-jadîde) in the east, Hasan Sabbah carried out his activities from his headquarters in Alamut and completely cut off relations with the ...
Identification of Persian Mind with Shiite Muslim Conception
The first resentment in the place known as "Benu Saide canopy" was the suspicious death of Abu Bakr (risk of poisoning), the martyrdom of the next three heads of state, and the transformation of the civil wars against the Prophet against the Umayyad ...
Transformation of Islamic Mind to Arab Mind
After the revelation, he started to actively oppose and put the new system into practice. Hz. Muhammad shook the polytheistic structure that dominated Mecca and the Kaaba in the religious sense at that time, with Tawhid. He corrupted the aristocracy ...
What is Pragmatism?
He talks about being practical, he says that nothing but success is important in the actions taken. He explains that moral principles and other measures are not important, the measure is only ...
Inertia
Inertia is actually more of a physics term. It is defined as the "principle of inertia" that matter does not want to change its speed and direction unless a force is applied to ...
Legitimizing Political Conflicts Through Sects
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the conflict between civilizations thesis is intended to be transformed into an intra-civilizational conflict (Sunni-Shiite), and in this respect, sectarianism is a ...
We Follow What We Believe
That's when I understood that she actually knows because she knows. In fact, you will hand over everything to someone who knows. Then nothing will be a ...
Water Finds Its Way
Ali Nesin talks about a math problem he has been trying to solve for a long time. He says that when he gave up, he suddenly found the solution. His subconscious mind continued to solve the ...
Reckoning with Ourselves
Those who are at peace with themselves, those who have the courage to question themselves sincerely, do not get lost, or even if they are lost, they can find a way out ...
Roads to Good and Beautiful, Ask Us To Be Patient
When you know and really understand the meanings of some concepts, they act as a key that opens the door to life and guides you to live life in a different way. ...
Reflections on Life
The biggest mistake we will make is to substitute them for one another. The most ommon of these substitutions seems to be the onfusion of tradition with the notion of faith. Situations where we an't differentiate orrectly make us prejudiced and ...
What is the Relationship between Religion and Language?
"Man thinks with language, lives with religion. The development of language makes thinking, and the straight life of religion makes life good and beautiful. The development of thought depends on language. Acting according to the rules of ...
Female Pope
This article is about the story of the woman who became the pope by deftly concealing her identity. The Papacy is the authority representing the spiritual and corporal leadership of the Catholic church. ...
Contemporary Islamic Thinkers
It is extremely important to cross-read the basic works of scholars who try to find philosophical solutions to the economic-political problems of the Islamic world, but have different thinking models. ...
Divine Religions for a Peaceful World
All truth, except the last and the most important, is a shadow; however, each truth is true in its own way. Every truth is an entity in its own place, even if it is only a shadow ...
Our Prophet and Philosophy Teaching
God, who is defined as the being that does not need any other existence in order to exist, sent people the set of principles (ed-Din) that will ensure prosperity in the world and success in the hereafter, through the first human/prophets. ...
What are the Historical Foundations of the Founding Philosophy of the Republic of Turkey?
Turks, one of he ancient nations with a continuous state radition in history, conquered he lands on he Silk Road, which connects he East and he West and has been he axis of civilization for centuries, strengthened heir sovereignty according ...
The Importance of Secularism Today's Turkish Republic
It is necessary to avoid the misfortune of undated readings in order to understand how indispensable secularism is, which has an undeniable place in the founding philosophy of the Republic of ...
What Is a "Civilizational War"?
September 11, 2001 is actually the start date of the new century. US-based global powers, energy production and supply centers, democracy, human rights, etc. began to intervene for reasons. Starting from ...
What Does Cognitive Contradiction Theory Mean?
From time to time, I cannot understand some of the attitudes and behaviors of the people around me. For example, when someone talks about the harms of smoking to a smoker, they immediately talk about people who smoke and live a very long and healthy ...
Life is short, birds are flying
Cemal Süreya's "Life is short, birds fly." The strings lie on my desk. "You don't need to be a bird to fly, it's enough to have small joys." ...
Is it possible to live with dignity in the circle of equality and fraternity in our society?
In order to achieve this, it is necessary to eliminate the confusion over the concepts "state, nation / nation and homeland / homeland". As regulated in Article 9 the European Convention, we can do this if we can make it a complementary area ...
What is Fundamental(Religion)ism? Is It Really the Source of Violence?
Benjamin Franklin “Those who prefer short-term security to freedom deserve neither security nor freedom.” The way not to fall into the problem he says is to take precautions against acts of violence that threaten our security, without ...
Qizilbash Sufism as the Conception of “Non-Mushari” Religiosity
As you know, we have been reading bout the Turkish mind nd the historical foundations of the Muslim imagination revealed by this mind in the context of contributing to minimizing the possible damages of the current economic-political wars of Arab ...
What are the Arab, Persian and Turkish understandings of Islam?
The Theological Analysis of the 15 July 2016 Coup Attempt should also be made by linking the global powers to Turkey, energy production and supply centers with the new arrangements made under the name of Arab ...
What is happiness according to Farabi?
As an individual, it is the expectation of every human being to live in a happy and peaceful environment. For this, first of all, it is necessary to think about the way to live a just and virtuous life individually and socially, and put it into ...
Bridge Between East and West: Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina
We attach importance to the texts of scholars who know the epistemic foundations of Western dominance and create a state of consciousness by bringing the possibility of an Islamic revival/Renaissance to the agenda in finding solutions to the ...
Let's philosophize but not be pedantic
We define philosophy as collaborating with the world's distinguished minds, understanding their views on existence, knowledge and value, discussing their possible contributions to the solution of current problems, and increasing options. ...
Our Basic Concepts: Religion and Nation
Turks, one of he ancient nations with a continuous state radition in history, conquered he lands on he Silk Road, which connects he East and he West and has been he axis of civilization for centuries, strengthened heir sovereignty according ...
Epidemic and Virtual
Could we use the concepts with the same confidence if we knew the history of our relationship to concepts? Or, if we had the opportunity to see on which needs value judgments were based, could we separate them from the nature of needs and ...
What Does Indigenousness Mean?
Many civilizations have come and gone in the history of thought, and an important part of them was shaped in the Mesopotamia-Anatolian cultural basin. There cannot be a civilization that is isolated from each other and has never been affected. It is ...
Our Civilization and Its Cities
The theoretical and practical dimensions of the necessity of grounding the relationship between City and Philosophy in terms of Islamic Philosophy can be explained as follows. ...
Congregational Dynamics in Muslim Societies
It will be easier to understand the structure of today's groups/communities if we analyze how the efforts for the protection of individual rights and the realization of justice, put forth by our Master the Prophet, turned into an ignorant system ...
This Country and Turkish Knowledge
Today we will discuss Cemil Meriç\'s \"This Country\" (Istanbul: İletişim Publishing House ...
The Search for a Virtuous, Fair Administration: Nomocracy
My youth has always passed with the search I expressed in this title, in high school I read Socialist-Marxist as well as Nationalist discourse within the conflicts of the right-left, to the extent of the excitement and possibility of the ...
'Darkenar' on Religious Fatigue and Deism Debates
The reasons why we have been confronted with the "Deism" and "Religious Fatigue" debates in recent ...
Religion-State Relations and the Question of the Caliphate (3)
It is essential to follow the cultural continuity of the Seljuk-Ottoman and Turkish Republic in order to re-territorialize philosophy in Anatolia, because it is necessary to update the Turkish Mind, which developed a doctrine without using the ...
Religion-State Relations and the Question of the Caliphate (2)
It is necessary to explain a little more about the fact that we do not read the scholars and their classical works, which form the basis of Turkestan Islam along the Hanafi-Maturidi-Yesevi line, as a point of departure, in a way that will produce ...
Information Science Conceptions in Post-1980 (Islamic) Journals
The year 1979-1980 is also the date of an important transformation in Turkish Islamist Thought. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1979, East and West Germany ...
Religion-State Relations and the Question of the Caliphate (I)
It is extremely important to cross-read the basic works of scholars who try to find philosophical solutions to the economic-political problems of the Islamic world, but have different thinking ...
ISIS and Khorasan Organizations as Symbols of Fear and Violence
I read G. Orwell's (1903-1950) novel "1984" as a "utopia of horror" in 1984. How would I know, “Big Brother Is Watching You!” it will happen! ...
"Satellite People" in the Global War of Propaganda (II)
Orhan Pamuk writes in his novel Yeni Hayat, “I read a book, my life has changed.” he was beginning. ...
"Satellite People" in the Global Propaganda War (I)
The conflicts and massacres in the Arab and Afghanistan-Pakistan region turned the concept of “Islam” into the opposite ...
Islamic philosophy readings for individuals with "free mind, free knowledge, free conscience"
The global epidemic, named Covid-19, added “health security” to the balance in freedom and security ...
Locality and Nationality
Dear previous Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, at the meeting of the wise, said that the “solution project is domestic and national”. ...
Individual Ethics
From Hz.Adam to Hz. All prophets, until Hz.Prophet Muhammad, believed that people's prosperity, perfection and maturity in world; They explained ...
Human Dignity
We see Abdurrahman Şeref Bey as an important touchstone for examining the cultural transition of the Ottoman State-Turkish ...
A 'September 11' reading twenty years later
It is necessary to think about the vision of a new civilization that can bring peace to humanity, which is facing new crises in many ...
Making Turkish a language of science and philosophy
The Ottoman Empire, the longest-lived single-dynastic state in the world, gradually introduced the Three Styles of Politics in order to adapt to the changing world paradigm in the political, economic and social fields with the 1789 French ...
Turkish philosophy: notes on its possibilities and justifications
In order to discuss the rationale and possibility of a "Turkish Philosophy", one should first look at the term philosophy, and then discuss whether the expression "Turkish Philosophy" is ...
To read the Anatolian (Lycian) accumulation, which is the source of the US system, from a geo-philosophical point of view
At Hitit University, we conduct philosophical readings in the context of "Reterritorializing Philosophy in ...
Where is the original home of philosophy?
“Is the Original Home of Philosophy, the Ionian region and the Greeks as we were taught, or the Mesopotamian region and the ...