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Atatürk is a Pioneer

2020-12-15T00:42:39+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: education, enlightenment, free in conscience, free in ideas, free in wisdom, freedom, independence|

First of all, I would like to express my condolences to our nation, or rather to all humanity, for Atatürk was a pioneer not only for our nation, but for the entire world. In what sense? We could say because of his achievements or the Republic he founded, but he is also a pioneer in terms of enlightenment. I will focus on the enlightenment-related aspects of Atatürk, for history is not just a collection of facts and events, it also comprises the people who shape these events and act as subjects. Therefore, we would be mistaken if we were [...]

People Are Born Thrice

2020-07-16T00:34:35+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: consciousness, contemporary societies, cultural setting, dependence on authority, education, enlightenment, positivism, religion, revolutionary, tradition, Understanding|

The first birth is surrounded by the “cultural setting”; the second birth is into “education”, when the person is shaped via pedagogical, psychological and scientific methods; and the third birth is when a person “gives birth to themselves”, referring to time when one can shape one’s own life through one’s own free will. When we are born, we enter the world with nothing but genetic features, abilities and natural tendencies. We start to become shaped by the references of the cultural setting into which we are born. We cannot choose our parents, race, religion, locality or history; in short, [...]

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 [...]