Focusing on the case study of post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, this article examines high school students' perception of their schools and education by using metaphors. A total of 1433 high school students participated in this research. Based on the data that we collected from 9th and 10th grade students during field research (January - February 2020) in various regions of Kyrgyzstan and analysed students' answers about their schools. The findings show that the study's participants produced 178 metaphors about their schools. The participants used 102 positive, 108 negative metaphors and 32 metaphors fo ...Daha fazlası
Since the end of communism, Kyrgyzstan, like other Muslim-majority regions of the former Soviet Union, has experienced an ‘Islamic revival’. Among its manifestations has been a rising number of veiled women. Many of them have joined the Tablighi Jamaat (the Society for Spreading Faith) which provides Islamic teaching (taalim) and organises weekly religious sessions (ijtimas). The chapter examines the ways in which the Tablighi Jamaat has been shaping Kyrgyz women's understanding of Islam and what it means to them to be Muslim. It is particularly interested in the implications of the Tablighi J ...Daha fazlası
Aristotle's views of practical reasoning/wisdom (phronesis) are closely linked to his account of action (praxis). When it comes to practical reasoning, its relation with virtues, which are divided into two as intellectual and ethical virtues by Aristotle, is extremely important. To make this relation clearer, first, the connection of practical thinking with theoretical thinking and therefore with the intellectual virtues was questioned. For example, it has been tried to understand whether the rational deliberation in practical reasoning works like theoretical deliberation or whether it proceed ...Daha fazlası
Trying to make a comparison between C. Aitmatov and M. Heidegger at first look could be seem strange. But such a comparison is actually important in one hand not only for understanding the philosophical foundations of artistic outlook of Aitmatov and in another hand to demonstrate the existential -phenomenological rootedness of ontological ideas of Heidegger. For although there isn't any knowledge if they were ever meet in real life, yet it is obvious that they were close friends in the dimension of thinking, understanding of Genesis, they search and experience the spiritual dimension of that ...Daha fazlası
This paper explores the impact of the security problems of Afghanistan on Kyrgyzstan's current national security situation. Afghanistan's main channels of indirect influence are the narcotics trafficking and the infiltration of the international terrorist groups into the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic. Besides, the “Afghan crisis” has a direct impact on the national security of Kyrgyz Republic. The identification and assessment of Afghanistan's influence on the security situation in Kyrgyzstan necessitates an analysis of the social, political, geopolitical, economic and ideological aspects o ...Daha fazlası
One of the most important debates of the last two centuries has taken place in the issue of religion and science relations, and two main opinions arise in regards to the subject. One of them is positivist doctrine having an ideological meaning about science, the other is the spiritual approaches trying to produce a discourse against this doctrine. There are so many works have been written in the frame of positivist doctrine, dealing with the thesis on conflict and incompatibility between religion and science. Two of them are Islam and Science (L’islam et la science) having been written by the ...Daha fazlası
Kutadgu Bilig is one of the first works of the history of Turkish culture which shows the possibilities of Turkish in a wide area. It is a work that has not only literary but also conceptual richness and intellectual connotations that will create a philosophical context. In the answer to the question of what is philosophical text, we can say rationality, posing problems, consistency, producing new concepts, discursive approach, deep and thorough thinking, having a philosophical attitude and forming context within the history of philosophy. Many of these features can be seen in Kutadgu Bilig. F ...Daha fazlası
Thinking is one of the most distinguishing characteristics of humans. Man/woman can understand through thinking, find his/her way through thinking, and solve inherent problems after giving some thought. Any educational activity, regardless of its type, initially aims to train the ability of our thinking. Thus although there are relatively new definitions such as "education of thinking", "philosophy with kids", "critical and creative thinking skills" education of thinking is in reality as ancient as the roots of humanity. The reason activities such as knowing, understanding, living, and creatin ...Daha fazlası