Socrates - Metin Bobaroğlu

About Art

2020-11-08T19:41:15+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: art, Classical art, Duchamp, enlightenment, Hegel, Kemal Atatürk, Modern art, modernity, Ortega, philosophy, poetry, Romantic art, Socrates, Symbolic art, Tarkovsky, Umberto Eco|

Modern civilization is built on four foundations: Sports, Science, Art, and Philosophy. Sports deals with the discipline of movement, Science with concepts and terminology specific to science, Art with images, and Philosophy with concepts. Artistic endeavor has existed in all cultures since the earliest periods in history, but art gained self-consciousness in Ancient Greece. This was no accident because Ancient Greece was also where people gained consciousness of philosophy, or of their own thoughts. Andrey Tarkovski “Art emerges and develops where there is a yearning for the ideal,” says A. Tarkovsky, and adds, “Art is a symbol of this [...]

Art

2020-11-08T19:26:14+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: aesthetic, art, common essence, consciousness, Socrates, sophia, Tarkovsky, temple of humanity, uniqueness, wisdom|

“Art emerges and develops where there is a yearning for the ideal,” says A. Tarkovsky, and adds, “Art is a symbol of this world that is intertwined with the spiritual reality hidden from us by a utilitarian practice.” Even though the idea is a highly controversial concept, the idea in terms of art represents, at its most basic, “unity” and “integrity.” It expresses the “common essence” or “common form” that holds what is different together. The work of art is at one with its essence; it is unique and original. Artistic endeavor is found in all cultures, from the earliest periods [...]

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 [...]

Anatolia, Ashura and Sohbet

2020-07-01T18:57:59+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: Anatolia, ancient wisdom, Ashura, Gospel of John, harmony, logos, Logos was God, Quran, Sahabe-i Kiram, Socrates|

The efforts that I have put into studying the wisdom of Anatolia are not restricted to a geographical region; these are studies which I usually refer to as the Wisdom of Anatolia or the Ancient Wisdom to stress the importance of it on the intersection point of Anatolian lands. I prefer to focus on portraying the great culture and the vastness this culture entails, because the wisdom I am talking about is not something that can exist entirely within a limited geographical area. *** Anatolia is called as the cradle of culture. According to ancient records, Anatolia, with its [...]