logic - Metin Bobaroğlu

Is “Enlightenment” Possible Without Understanding the Paradigm-Shifting Theory of Relativity?

2021-09-13T19:00:23+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Einstein’s Theory of Objective Relativity, Transcripts|Tags: Bhagavat Gita, consciousness, Democritus, dialectic, Einstein’s theory, Engels, enlightenment, Existence, Immanuel Kant, logic, metaphysics, noumena, phenomenon, philosophy of science, Reality, relativity, Shiva, Tai Chi, Yin Yang|

As Times Change, So Do the Contents of Concepts Kant's Distinction between Phenomena and Noumena The East Started But Failed to Complete; the West Went Slow and Steady What is Not Related is Not Defined The Theory of Objective Relativity is the Most Revolutionary Theory of Our Age Another Look at Kant’s Phenomena through This Understanding How Did Hegel Overcome the Dilemma? From Contradiction to Relation: Relatio, Religare, Relativity Knowing Means Knowing the Transformation of a Thing For Enlightenment, We Must Update the Method of Logic We Use The [...]

On the Science of Art

2020-07-18T18:40:15+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: Aristotelian logic, Aristotle, art, consciousness, freedom, Imagination, Intellectual phenomena, logic, ontology, phenomena, philosophy, Reality, science|

Until Immanuel Kant –with the possible exception of Aristotle in antiquity– art was mostly described as an awe-inspiring product of imagination that bypasses the reason, and treated this way in the literature. After Kant, however, Hegel in particular said –along with his criticism of Kant– “No, art is not merely a product of our imagination.” Imagination can create certain products by taking inputs from the objects in the outside world and processing them in a cinematographic manner –as in dreams– but we also use our reason, the faculty said to be bypassed in this whole process, to make judgments [...]

Philosophy

2020-07-16T00:40:06+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: Aristotle, Bacchus, enlightenment, Epicurus, logic, philos, philosophy, Plato, Pythagoras, Socrates, sophist, sufism, thinkers, wisdom|

From Plato to this day, what leads people to philosophize is that they view themselves as in-between. People are stranded between nature that surrounds them and infinity (God) that transcends them. Ever since Plato and Aristotle, this in-betweenness has always been an object of wonder and curiosity. This curiosity is about objects, facts, events, and the riddle of the universe, but it is also felt regarding the inner world of humans. All attempts to provide solutions throughout the history of philosophy, whether positive or negative, have aimed to comprehend this state of in-betweenness. Many philosophical arguments have been put [...]

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 [...]