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Comparative Eastern and Western Aesthetics

2021-09-13T16:05:26+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: aesthetic judgments, Aesthetics, Ancient Greece, art, Chronos, contemplation, Dialogos, esoteric, mathematos, music, mysticism, mystics, mythologia, nomos, philosophy, plastic arts, poetry, science of art, Systematic Philosophy, theater, wisdom|

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 [...]

An Interview on “Artificial Intelligence”

2021-02-17T02:05:46+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: actuality, Artificial Intelligence, chatbots, computer, consciousness, cyberspace states, cyborgs, dystopia, epistemology, Google, Habermas, hologram, Imagination, philosophy, Pythagoras, Reality, robot, Saussure, software, transfer of consciousness, utopia, virtual, wisdom, Wittgenstein|

The Age of Pythagoras is Coming to an End, and We Are Entering the Age of Plato... Ayşe Acar: Regarding Artificial Intelligence, one of the most popular topics of discussion is Technological Singularity. This refers to the fear of a super Artificial Intelligence overtaking the world in the future, and ending humanity. This is not what I understand by the term “technological singularity.” I argue that singularity may arise in the internet rather in a super computer. What matters here is network and data. I believe what we will encounter as the future Super Artificial Intelligence is ‘Us’. For example, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Problem of Akhlaq in Sufism

2021-02-15T03:35:08+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: akhlaq, God, Hermes Thoth, Holy Quran, Love, Morality, Prophet Jesus, religion, Spiritual purification, Sufi Ibn Arabi, sufism, wisdom|

“Religion is morality in practice. Knowledge is but an instrument.” Lütfi Filiz Any treatise on akhlaq (morality/character) and Sufism (Tasawwuf) needs to make references to specialized literature and a set of concepts. The concepts of Sufism have both a philosophical and a poetic character, meaning that philosophical concepts alone would not be sufficient to explain Sufism. If philosophical concepts are like “day and night” to the mind, and mystic concepts are like “light and dark”, then Sufi concepts are like “dawn and twilight”, in that the language of Sufism contains both concepts and symbols. It addresses both aql (reason) and [...]

Reason, Conscience and Courage in Civilization

2020-10-01T15:34:48+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: Civilization, Conscience, Courage, Eastern civilization, Greek civilization, Hebrew culture, Hermes Thoth, Pax Romana, Torah, Western civilization, wisdom|

There are two basic worldviews, two languages in the world: one is the language of the Eastern civilization with Sanskrit roots, and the other is the language of the Western civilization with Ancient Egyptian roots. Further divisions are within these two basic worldviews. The term Indo-European languages points both to the connections between the two civilizations due to Alexander’s conquests and the Silk Road, and the differences between them. Egypt had a Hermetic-esoteric and closed system that revealed knowledge, attitudes, states, and experiences to its students and followers only, through initiation, but concealed it from the outside. We can assume [...]

A “Stranger” on Earth

2020-10-01T15:27:25+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: existentialist competition, French Revolution, humanist, nihilism, Political economy, positivist, sufism, Sword of Damocles, tasawwuf, Viktor E. Frankl, wisdom|

“Through painful toil you will eat food from the ground all the days of your life.” Genesis 3:17 The “identity crisis” that emerged after the two world wars left people uncertain about how to define themselves, what to believe in and what to hope for. Neither the institution of religion, nor the state authorities had been able to protect humanity from these disasters. Following the French Revolution, in particular, “nation-state” organizations and “humanist” and “positivist” approaches to education were adopted throughout the world. This was the new way of existence for societies, and the rally cry of this new [...]

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 Problem of Communication

2020-07-16T00:36:54+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: alienation, art, Communication, consciousness, Existence, globalization, Language, Love, peace, philosophy, religion, spirituality, spiritualization, wisdom|

As is well known, communication is a relationship in which messages are conveyed between two sources. If the messages flow only in one direction, no communication takes place. Feedback is a must for communication. Today, the word “communication” has mostly technological connotations. When we hear the word communication, we think of radio, television, newspapers, phones, computers, the Internet, and the like, and this technological dimension means that information can today flow between countries, nations and individuals in an unrestrained way, crossing borders freely. Communication provides the infrastructure for interaction, but is commonly used in a sense that covers interaction [...]