ISSUES OF EXISTENCE AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN YUSUF KHOS HAJIB’S WORK KUTADGU BILIG

Abstract

In the article, the author expresses his views on the views of the medieval Turkic peoples on the existence and knowledge in the work “Kutadgu bilig” by the great philosopher-scientist Yusuf Khos Hajib. It also analyzed a large-scale encyclopedic guide, a proverb, which reflects the whole existence of habits, moral concepts, moral principles, and norms. It raises many philosophical problems peculiar to the spiritual pursuits of the great medieval thinkers. KEY WORDS: epistemology, consciousness, cognition, gynecology, universal of nature, peripatetic, philosophy of compromise, rationalism, realistic ideas.