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Hilmi Ziya established the Philosophy Association together with Mehmet Servet in 1928 which was the first in its category in the Republic of Turkey.<ref name=ncel>{{cite journal|author=Nilgün Çelebi|title=Sociology Associations in Turkey: Continuity Behind Discontinuity |journal=[[International Sociology]]|year=2002|volume=17|issue=2|pages=257–260|doi=10.1177/0268580902017002007}}</ref> However, it was closed in 1930.<ref name=ncel/> Ülken was also the founder of the Sociology Association which was established in Ankara on 2 December 1949.<ref name=ncel/>
Hilmi Ziya established the Philosophy Association together with Mehmet Servet in 1928 which was the first in its category in the Republic of Turkey.<ref name=ncel>{{cite journal|author=Nilgün Çelebi|title=Sociology Associations in Turkey: Continuity Behind Discontinuity |journal=[[International Sociology]]|year=2002|volume=17|issue=2|pages=257–260|doi=10.1177/0268580902017002007}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Yaman Örs |editor1=Maria Carla Galavotti|title=Cambridge and Vienna. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook|year=2006|publisher=Springer|location=Dordrecht |isbn=978-1-4020-4101-3|page=191|volume=12|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4101-2_13|chapter=Hans Reichenbach and Logical Empiricism in Turkey}}</ref> However, it was closed in 1930.<ref name=ncel/> Ülken was also the founder of the Sociology Association which was established in Ankara on 2 December 1949.<ref name=ncel/>


During the preparations to establish the [[International Sociological Association]] (ISA) in 1949 the preparatory committee of the Constituent Congress contacted with two scholars from Turkey, Ülken and Ziyaeddin Fahri Fındıkoğlu.<ref name=step21>{{cite journal|author=Stéphane Dufoix|title=Under Western Eyes? Elements for a Transnational and International History of Sociology in Asia (1960s–1980s)|journal=Journal of Historical Sociology|date=March 2021|volume=34|issue=1|doi=10.1111/johs.12319|pages=58–60}}</ref> Ülken participated in the Congress held in Oslo in September 1949.<ref name=step21/> He was the vice president of the ISA and a member of its executive committee between 1953 and 1959.<ref name=step21/>
During the preparations to establish the [[International Sociological Association]] (ISA) in 1949 the preparatory committee of the Constituent Congress contacted with two scholars from Turkey, Ülken and Ziyaeddin Fahri Fındıkoğlu.<ref name=step21>{{cite journal|author=Stéphane Dufoix|title=Under Western Eyes? Elements for a Transnational and International History of Sociology in Asia (1960s–1980s)|journal=Journal of Historical Sociology|date=March 2021|volume=34|issue=1|doi=10.1111/johs.12319|pages=58–60}}</ref> Ülken participated in the Congress held in Oslo in September 1949.<ref name=step21/> He was the vice president of the ISA and a member of its executive committee between 1953 and 1959.<ref name=step21/>

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Hilmi Ziya Ülken
Ülken in 1946
Born3 October 1901
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died5 June 1974(1974-06-05) (aged 72)
Istanbul, Turkey
Resting placeAşiyan cemetery, Istanbul
NationalityTurkish
Alma materDarulfünun (Istanbul University
Spouse(s)
Hatice Ülken
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(m. 1924; "his death" is deprecated; use "died" instead. 1974)​
Scientific career
FieldsPhilosophy
Institutions

Hilmi Ziya Ülken (1901–1974) was a Turkish scholar and writer who had an influential role in the development of sociological and philosophical views in Turkey. In addition to his scientific work, he produced literary work, including poems.

Early life and education

Hilmi Ziya was born in Constantinople on 3 October 1901.[1] His father, Mehmet Ziya Bey, was a faculty member at Darulfünun, precursor of Istanbul University, where he taught chemistry and served as the dean of the School of Dentistry and Pharmaceutics.[2] His mother, Müşfike Hanım, was from a family from Kazan, and her father, Kerim Hazret, was a religious figure who settled in Constantinople in the 1850s upon invitation of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz during the Crimean War.[2]

In 1918 Hilmi Ziya graduated from İstanbul High School and attended Darulfünun's School of Political Sciences where he received a degree in 1921.[3]

Career

Following his graduation Hilmi Ziya worked as a geography teacher.[3] After obtaining further education at Darulfünun in the fields of ethics, sociology and history of philosophy he continued to work as a teacher in Ankara and Istanbul.[3] He taught sociology at Istanbul High School, and one of his pupils was Pertev Naili Boratav.[4] He also taught philosophy and sociology at the Galatasaray High School.[5]

In 1933 Hilmi Ziya went to Berlin for a research visit.[5] The same year Darulfünun was reorganized as Istanbul University and following his return to Turkey he joined it as an assistant professor of Turkish cultural history at the Department of Philosophy.[5] He taught the history of doctrines, the history of logic, philosophy, sociology and history of art.[3] One of his colleagues at the department was the German philosopher Hans Reichenbach who settled in Istanbul due to the Nazi rule in Germany.[5]

In 1944 Ülken was promoted to the title of attending professor and became an ordinary professor in 1957.[2] Hilmi Ziya joined Ankara University in the 1950s and became the dean of Faculty of Theology at Ankara University in 1959, but he resigned from office soon.[2] He was elected to the same post in 1962.[2] However, he again resigned after six months.[2] From 1964 he began to teach the first course on philosophy of education in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Ankara.[6] He retired from his teaching post in 1973.[2]

Views

His views were mostly influenced from the work by various Muslim, Turkish and European figures such as Ibn Arabi, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Ziya Gökalp, Mehmet İzzet, Émile Durkheim, Henri Bergson, Émile Boutroux, Baruch Spinoza, Max Scheler and Martin Heidegger.[2] Ülken reported that he and other leading figures began to follow the ideas of Henri Bergson due to the fact that these ideas offered them a spiritual command of intuition and a material power of change.[7] Because they needed such an inspiration during the armistice period.[7] In the late 1920s while he was teaching at Darulfünun he supported the idea-oriented sociology against the experimental sociology.[8] During his term at Istanbul University Ülken was among the first Turkish scholars who dealt with logical empiricism.[5]

Work

Ülken was the author of various books which included textbooks on psychology, sociology and philosophy. In 1931 he published Aşk Ahlakı (Turkish: Ethics of Love) that presented his views on ethical philosophy containing sociological and cultural dimensions.[9] His another book was İnsani Vatanperverlik (1933; Turkish: Humanist Patriotism) in which he discussed humanistic universalism and nationalism and attempted to present a solution to the problem between idealism and realism.[2] This book was his first and only attempt to produce a philosophical syncretism.[2] In 1935 Ülken published a book on the functions of translation entitled Uyanış Devirlerinde Tercümenin Rolü (Turkish: The role of translation during ages of reawakening).[1] There he argued that translation provides creative power when a group involves in the reawakening process.[10] One of his most known books was Türkiye'de Çağdaş Düşünce Tarihi (1966; Turkish History of Modern Thought in Turkey) in which he examined the history of thought in Turkey.[2] His study contained an analysis of the topic across three periods, namely the Tanzimat period, the Meşrutiyet period and the Republic period.[2] His lecture notes on the philosophy of education were published as a book in 1982.[6]

Ülken was a contributor to several publications and established some journals. He first contributed to the magazines Mihrab (Turkish: Altar) and Anadolu Mecmuası (Turkish: Anatolia Journal) in the 1920s.[3] The other periodicals in which he published articles are as follows: Dergâh, Her Ay, Türk Yurdu, Yeni İnsanlık and Türk Düşüncesi.[3]

Ülken cofounded and published İnsan (Turkish: Man) magazine together with Nurullah Ataç, Sabahattin Eyüboğlu and Celaleddin Ezine from 1938 to 1943.[3] From 1943 Ülken started and edited Sosyoloji Dergisi (Turkish: Journal of Sociology) which was a publication of the Faculty of Arts at Istanbul University.[2][11]

Memberships and activities

Grave of Hilmi Ziya Ülken and his wife Hatice Ülken

Hilmi Ziya established the Philosophy Association together with Mehmet Servet in 1928 which was the first in its category in the Republic of Turkey.[8][12] However, it was closed in 1930.[8] Ülken was also the founder of the Sociology Association which was established in Ankara on 2 December 1949.[8]

During the preparations to establish the International Sociological Association (ISA) in 1949 the preparatory committee of the Constituent Congress contacted with two scholars from Turkey, Ülken and Ziyaeddin Fahri Fındıkoğlu.[13] Ülken participated in the Congress held in Oslo in September 1949.[13] He was the vice president of the ISA and a member of its executive committee between 1953 and 1959.[13]

Personal life and death

Hilmi Ziya married in 1924.[2] Her wife was Hatice Ülken, and they had a daughter.[14] He died in Istanbul on 5 June 1974.[1] Ülken was buried in Aşiyan cemetery, Istanbul.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Hilmi Ziya Ülken". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Hakan Arslanbenzer (31 January 2015). "Hilmi Ziya Ülken: Ethics of love". Daily Sabah. İstanbul. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Hilmi Ziya Ülken". Biyografya. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  4. ^ Arzu Öztürkmen (2005). "Folklore on Trial: Pertev Naili Boratav and the Denationalization of Turkish Folklore". Journal of Folklore Research. 42 (2): 41. doi:10.2979/JFR.2005.42.2.185. JSTOR 3814600. S2CID 145810490.
  5. ^ a b c d e Pascale Roure (2022). "Logical empiricism in Turkish exile: Hans Reichenbach's research and teaching activities at Istanbul University (1933–1938)". Synthese. 200 (265): 265. doi:10.1007/s11229-022-03740-9.
  6. ^ a b Hasan Ünder (November 2008). "Philosophy of Education as an Academic Discipline in Turkey: The Past and the Present". Studies in Philosophy and Education. 27: 416. doi:10.1007/s11217-007-9049-z.
  7. ^ a b M. Sait Özervarlı (October 2013). "Intellectual Foundations and Transformations in an Imperial City: Istanbul from the Late Ottoman to the Early Republican Periods". The Muslim World. 103 (4): 524. doi:10.1111/muwo.12031.
  8. ^ a b c d Nilgün Çelebi (2002). "Sociology Associations in Turkey: Continuity Behind Discontinuity". International Sociology. 17 (2): 257–260. doi:10.1177/0268580902017002007.
  9. ^ Nurten Kiriş Yılmaz (Fall 2018). "Hilmi Ziya Ülken's Moral Opinion: Ethics of Love". Turkish Studies. 13 (26): 813. doi:10.7827/TurkishStudies.14571.
  10. ^ Iain Boyd Whyte (2013). "Editorial: Moving House—Berlin to Ankara". Art in Translation. 5 (3): 318. doi:10.2752/175613113X13714828569819.
  11. ^ Paul J. Magnarella; Orhan Türkdoğan (June 1976). "The Development of Turkish Social Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]". Current Anthropology. 17 (2): 266. doi:10.1086/201715.
  12. ^ Yaman Örs (2006). "Hans Reichenbach and Logical Empiricism in Turkey". In Maria Carla Galavotti (ed.). Cambridge and Vienna. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook. Vol. 12. Dordrecht: Springer. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-4020-4101-3.
  13. ^ a b c Stéphane Dufoix (March 2021). "Under Western Eyes? Elements for a Transnational and International History of Sociology in Asia (1960s–1980s)". Journal of Historical Sociology. 34 (1): 58–60. doi:10.1111/johs.12319.
  14. ^ a b Hatice Ülken (1979). "Eşim Hilmi Ziya'nın Özel Hayatı". Istanbul Journal of Sociological Studies (in Turkish) (17).

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