Dialogos - Metin Bobaroğlu

Comparative Eastern and Western Aesthetics

The Distinction between Aesthetics and Fine Art What Did Hegel Mean When He Said “Art Is a Thing of the Past”? Evolution of Craft into Art A Work of Art Can Be Critiqued by a Critic Trained in Aesthetics The Historical Development of Systematic Philosophy Why Is It Assumed That Philosophy First Began in Greece? Philosophy Is an Evolution from Mythos to Logos The Relationship between Imagination and Art There Can Be No Ethics Without Aesthetics! The Distinction between Aesthetics and Fine Art People confuse [...]

Dialogos as the Anatolian Tradition of Sohbet

2020-07-02T21:12:13+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: a dervish lodge, Anatolian, Ashura, dargah, Dialogos, interculturality, Mishkan, monologos, Moses, Shekhina, Tabernacle, tent of Moses, the Language of Rabb, the lotus position, Tradition of Sohbet|

Is there any way for us to reflect upon and criticize our own consciousness without being involved in any self-delusion and self-consolation? Dialogos is the only means for such an attempt. Dialogos is the conversation (or correspondence) between two consciousnesses. Unless we reveal our consciousness to another, and most particularly to a more competent consciousness (in other words, unless we are engaged in an activity of inter-consciousness), we are not capable of reflecting upon ourselves. To be able to reflect upon our own consciousness, we need to share our language and our thoughts with the others. Unless there is [...]