Takiyettin Mengüşoğlu Explained

Takiyettin Mengusoglu (1905–1984) was a Turkish philosopher.^[1]

Mengusoglu was born in Malatya, Turkey. After finishing high school, he went to Germany and became a student of Nicolai Hartmann. He was known as Takiyettin Temuralp at that time and published Über die grenzen der erkennbarkeit bei Husserl und Scheler in German.^[2] He is the author of the university level textbook Felsefeye Giriş (Introduction to Philosophy).^{[3] [4]}

Mengüşoğlu founded a new school of anthropology, which he called ontological anthropology. This anthropology deals with man not through any conceptualization but through "his concrete biopsychic wholeness".^[5] He believed that this new anthropology would be more suitable for approaching and solving concrete problems in the human world.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prof. Dr. Takiyettin Mengüşoğlu (1908 - 1994) . http://web.archive.org/web/20070517070805/felsefe.istanbul.edu.tr/node/52 . 17 May 2007 . felsefe.istanbul.edu.tr.
2. Book: Temural, Takiyettin . Über die grenzen der erkennbarkeit bei Husserl und Scheler . 1937 . de . 15508423 . Verlag für staatswissenschaften und geschichte g. m. h. . Berlin.
3. Web site: Felsefeye Giriş . Remzi Kitabevi . 2008-02-21 . 2007-09-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928055606/http://www.remzi.com.tr/index.asp?anakategori=59&kategori=149&kitapid=933 . dead .
4. Book: Mengüşoğlu, Takiyettin . Felsefeye Giriş . tr . Istanbul . 1968 . 23565250.
5. Yüzyılımızda İki Antropoloji Anlayışı, Heidegger ve Mengüşoğlu . http://web.archive.org/web/20130626054440/http://www.edebiyatdergisi.hacettepe.edu.tr/2000172SevgiIyi.pdf . 26 June 2013 . Iyi . Sevgi . Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi . 17 . 2 . 57-67 . tr.