MY CLEAR CONCLUSION ABOUT PHILOSOPHERS

I can easily express this for all philosophers in the world and I would like to share it here: The best way to check a philosopher's philosophy in general is to analyse his/her approaches to art, artwork, art history, and aesthetics, and to check his/her general philosophical mental health. If you come across wrong, erroneous or ignorant discourses on nature and a-nature oppositions at these points, after a while, you will realise that that philosopher does not have a healthy philosophical system, and you will also understand how much the world magnifies that philosopher in the eyes of the world. You can reach a full understanding in this direction either by reading the original text in the language in which the philosopher wrote, or by reading the Turkish translation of the original language by a translator of one kind or another.

Art is of such key importance. Another point to be considered here is to pay attention to whether the philosopher's actions are based on art's own vocabulary: What the philosopher realises by looking at art through other fields, such as politics, law, economics, etc., is not enough to ensure and control the aforementioned, and even draws a veil over the eye. The dimension of pure art and its lexicon must be sought absolutely.

Even a small study in this direction will show that so much unnecessary material has been imposed on people all over the world in the readings they have done and will do, that in the face of such a situation, it is imperative to shorten the path in a healthy way, to make it short. Otherwise, one will drown in the crowd, the subject will disappear, in short, one will be unhappy.

As Moritz Geiger has said, in the light of the facts, art in its final stage either makes you happy or unhappy. For this reason, someone who finds and extracts these truths in art can also unravel philosophers from their thoughts on art. Anyway, if a philosopher has no intellectual explanations about art, it means that he is fighting on the run, or he is aware of what I call checks and balances and knows how to avoid it.

Özkan Eroğlu

26 April 2024