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- Title
THE BIRTH OF THE NEW PERCEPTION OF HUMANKIND FROM ŞEMSEDDIN SAMI TO AHMED NEBIL.
- Authors
KALAYCIOĞULLARI, İnan
- Abstract
The general conviction regarding the humankind up until the 19th century was that human beings were an independent and superior species among all the living beings created by God and this sui generis state was achieved by “reason” which other beings did not possess. This perception, however, began to change and transform through the works of scientists led by Lamarck and Darwin alongside with new data collected by works conducted in geology, anthropology, comparative anatomy, and physiology. Consequently, not only the fact that human beings were no different than other species with regards to material and spiritual characteristics but also the fact that species were able to change and originate from another came to be accepted as well. On the other hand, the traditional perception of humankind maintained its dominance until the last quarter of the 19th century in the Ottoman society but beginning with this era modern Ottoman thinkers paved the way to the establishment of a perception parallel to that of the West by works of anthropology, zoology and geology produced through the utilization of western resources. This study aims to introduce works in anthropology published in the Ottoman era spanning from Şemseddin Sami to Ahmed Nebil and then discuss the ways in which thoughts on humankind and the origin of humankind (what the humankind was, which age human beings came into being) were dealt with in order to comprehend the process of the new perception of the humankind in the Ottoman society.
- Publication
Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (FLSF), 2016, Issue 21, p181
- ISSN
1306-9535
- Publication type
Article