Abstract
The basis of Plato's war with the poet is not only that the poet is concerned with images having a weak positioning on the ontological plane. The poets, especially epic poets such as Homer, are the founding actors of social nomos (laws) and ethos (home, character, custom). Nevertheless, Plato has a radical demand about establishing social nomos and ethos through his own methods. For this reason, Plato enters into a strong war with the poet. His fight is in fact between rationality and imagination, as well as between logos and epos or mythos. In this context, Nazim Hikmet, as an epic poet, is a rival of Plato even though he is not Plato’s contemporary. As a matter of fact, his influence cannot be denied that the image of Shaykh Badr al-Din and some kind of social consciousness in this regard. For all that, we can argue that philosophy also pursues remaking of the social mindset shaped by the epic poet in its Platonic representation, with inspiration from ancient rivalry. In this study, the image of Shaykh Badr al-Din will be re-evaluated from a philosophical perspective by adopting rational criteria although it has come to the forefront with two dimensions (socialist and materialist) in Nazim Hikmet’s imagination. Is Shaykh Badr al-Din truly a socialist and materialist as he is alleged to be? Or did the “poet” manipulate the truth by crippling the mind as usual?
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