Aydınlanma Perspektifinden Doğu’nun Modernleşme Sorunu ve Çağdaşlaşma

Abstract

Our study focuses on the fundamentals of the separation between the West and the East and the transformation of this separation into a break in the axis of modernism. In this context, the main hypothesis of the study is that modernism was built on an atlas of mind based on the Ancient Greek heritage, and in this context, there was a radical difference between the West and the East that caused them to break apart. This difference peaked with Enlightenment and evolved into a dichotomy where the West owned the episteme and the East owned the doxa. The study advocates the impossibility of the modernization of the East and grasps the subject in an epistemelogy-ontology duality. The West described itself as knowing with Enlightenment, and considered everything against it as known. This has led the West to marginalize others he has encountered, even to objectify and peck at the subject of his research. The East faced the most severe consequences of this dilemma and wanted to develop, change, Westernize and catch up with the West by reading what happened at the end, back and forth. This judgment means that modernism from the West is embedded in the East. Because to want to develop, to accept his backwardness; means to see yourself through the eyes of the West. During the preparation of the study, the literature was scanned by evaluating the printed and electronic resources and a deterministic and epistemological attitude was acquired. The work is not a post-modernist reconciliation effort, but an explanation effort that claims the impossibility of Eastern modernization and its evolution into modernization and developmentalism due to this impossibility.