Teoman Duralı’s View of the West in the Context of Mentality
Chapter from the book: Arslan, İ. & Bozgeyik, Y. (eds.) 2024. Academic Research and Evaluations in The Field of Social Sciences.

Abdurrahman Karacan
Sakarya University

Synopsis

Teoman Duralı is a man of thought who has grown up with a close experience of the development process and mentality of Western civilization, but has lived in the age of maturity by feeding his thought through different mediums of thought and culture. The people he was influenced by with the culture he grew up in in forming his thinking structure also played an important role. The effort of the thinker to search for similar elements such as judgment, phenomenon, perception and concept formed in the process of mental struggle against Western civilization, etc, it is seen that he has the effort to reveal the mentality that lies behind the Western philosophical system of thought. In this context, it is understood that He has put forward a unique system of thought with the arguments he developed against Western civilization and the Western mentality. In this study, we try to show how Western civilization is perceived in the context of mentality based on Durali's “Contemporary Global Civilization” and how it is positioned a new and original alternative civilization that can be formed against Western civilization. In the study, research on the subject and other works of the thinker were used. In the study, firstly the concepts of mentality and civilization and their relationship with each other were examined. In the continuation of the study, the Western civilizational thought of Durali was examined in historical context and the underlying mentality in the background was approached with different concepts and issues.

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Karacan, A. (2024). Teoman Duralı’s View of the West in the Context of Mentality. In: Arslan, İ. & Bozgeyik, Y. (eds.), Academic Research and Evaluations in The Field of Social Sciences. Özgür Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58830/ozgur.pub427.c1902

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March 27, 2024

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