Philosopher (b. 1906,
Ioannina – d. 29 December 1978). He received elementary education in Bursa and Konya High Schools and graduated from Istanbul University,
Department of Philosophy (1929). He did his doctorate on the subject, Türk Felsefi Düşüncesinde İdealist Akımı ve Mehmet
İzzet (The
Idealist Movement in Turkish Philosophic Thought and Mehmet İzzet). He worked
as a teacher of literature and philosophy in several high schools for many
years (1930-59). He became a faculty member at Erzurum Atatürk
University, Faculty of
Literature (1963-65). He translated some works of philosophers such as
Reichenbach into Turkish. His articles were published in the newspapers and
reviews Kültür Haftası, Fikirler and Akademya, and in Anayol and Dünya, which he published. Also, he wrote a critical research
called Pedagoji, Okullarımıza Niçin
Girmiyor? (Why Doesn’t Pedagogy Feature in Our Schools?).
WORKS:
Bergson / Hayatı ve Felsefesi,
İlmi Felsefe (Bergson / His Life and Philosophy, Scientific Philosophy; translated
from Reichenbach), Yakın Çağların Fikir
ve Edebiyat Tarihimizde İzmir (İzmir In Our History Of Ideas and the
Literature of Modern Times, 1944), Bir
Şehrin ve Bir Adamın Tarihi: Tevfik Nevzat (History of a City and a Man: Tevfik
Nevzat, 1948), Dünyada ve Bizde
Anarşi, Anarşizm (Anarchy In The World and Us, Anarchism, 1950), Aydınlar Kenti İzmir (İzmir, City of
Intellectuals, edited by Yaşar Aksoy, 2000).
