Christianity - Metin Bobaroğlu

Anatolian Enlightenment and the Republic – Part 1

2021-01-06T23:28:59+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: Catholic, Christianity, Crusades, enlightenment, French Revolution, Holy Spirit, Immanuel Kant, intelligentsia, Kabbalah, Kemal Atatürk, Napoleon, prophet, Quran, Renaissance, Torah, wisdom, World War I|

Following the age of Enlightenment, following the movements of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, the individual and individualism gained significant ground in the European world. The problematic of individualism was balanced by socialism, and the individual, or being an individual served as the main principle of permanent modernity. The three basic principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity were born out of the Enlightenment, and their reflection in society, their reception by society –although nothing short of a revolution– was also the result of a historical background. My principle when it comes to understanding the relationship between theory and society is [...]

Utopia

2020-11-08T22:32:43+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: Al-Farabi, Aldous Huxley, Ancient Greek, Aristotle, Christianity, European culture, Immanuel Kant, Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, Myths, Nietzsche, philosophy, poetry, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, utopia|

Philosophy in ancient Greece acquired a systematic unity with Aristotle. A logical method was adopted to unite different disciplines. With Aristotle, philosophy gained a rational narrative through prose with logical and substantive consistency. Philosophers prior to Aristotle, pre-Socratics in particular, expressed philosophy in the form of poetry. Aristotle’s philosophy was a philosophy of solid objects; it carried the status of spatial objects “here and now” to rational concept by way of the union between their substantial and accidental qualities. In ancient Greece, the perception of time was rhythmic; past and future tenses were not used to express reality. The Ancient [...]

Let Us Get to Know One Another

2020-07-16T00:05:14+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: Allah, Anatolia, Christianity, Civilization, Exodus, Far Eastern, Greco-Roman, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Quran, Sanskrit, sufism, symbols, temple, The Messiah, Western civilization|

“Let us get to know one another, for it makes things easier; let us stop being strangers, let us love and be loved; for the world is no one’s to inherit.” Yunus Emre A person of Anatolia can play an active role in the development of a mutual understanding, being situated between the East and the West, and with a deep awareness of both civilizations. The key difference between the civilizations of the East and West is that while the former is “verbal” and “conscientious”, the latter is “visual” and “rational”. Far Eastern and Sanskrit civilizations may also be [...]

The Ethical Human as a Value-Generating Being

2020-07-16T00:19:14+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: alienation, Christianity, Civilization, consciousness, education, Ethical Human, ethics of values, Free Will, Hartmann, logic, moral creatures, Muhyiddin İhya, Old Testament, philosophical discipline, Sword of Damocles, unconscious, Value-Generating, Values|

Humans are defined in many different ways, and these definitions carry the marks of various disciplines. Among these, “Humans are value-generating beings” would be a prominent definition in terms of the “discipline of ethics”. Of course, humans cannot be reduced to this, in that they are more than mere value-generating beings, just as they are more than human beings involved in “thought, action, morality, willpower, society, labour”, etc. Every reduction stems from some sort of abstraction, and the different human definitions, as products of abstractions created by various disciplines within their own contexts, simply emphasize one or another aspect [...]