Philosopher and poet (b. 4 October
1936, İstanbul). She attended Zapyon Greek High School (1954) and graduated
from İstanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Philosophy
(1959). She completed her doctorate studies in 1965 and began to give lectures
at Erzurum University, which she later continued at Ankara Hacettepe
University. She received her doctorate degree in 1965. She became an associate
professor (1970) and then a professor (1978) at the same university. She has
been the Head of the Department of Philosophy at Hacettepe University since
1969, and the Director of the Research and Application Center for Human Rights
and Philosophy and the Chair of UNESCO at the same university since July 1997.
She is a member of the Turkish
Association of Philosophy (chairwoman since 1979), the Institution for Research
of Classical Period, the Turkish Association for Social Sciences, the UNESCO
Nation Commission to Turkey, the executive board of the German Cultural Center,
the Turkish Association of the United Nations, the Kemalist Thought Association
and the Economic and Social Foundation of Turkey. She is the Undersecretary of
Human Rights at the Office of the Prime Ministry and the Chairwoman of the
Turkish Ethical Commission of Human Rights.
She received the Goethe Medal (1966),
an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Crete University (1966), the Turkey
Academy of Sciences Award (1996), the Achievement in Science Award from
Hacettepe University (1994-1995 and 1995-1996), the World Friendship Union’s
Mevlana Yüce Foundation Award and the 75 Republican Women Award given by the
review Mimoza (1998).
Her articles have been published in the
reviews Deneme (1967), Toplumcu Düşün (1978), Toplum ve Bilim (1981), Türk Dili, Hacettepe Sosyal ve Beşeri
Bilimler Dergisi, Amme İdaresi Dergisi, Toplumcu Düşün, Toplum ve Bilim, Çağdaş
Düşünce, Sağlık ve Toplum, Lucerna, İnsancıl, Anadolu Sanat, Türkiye Felsefe
Kurumu Bülteni in Turkey and in various collaborative works.
WORKS:
ESSAY-STUDY: Max Scheler ve Nietzche'de Trajik (The Tragic in Max Scheler and
Nietzsche, 1965), Nietzsche ve İnsan (Nietzsche
and Man, 1966), Schopenhauer ve
Nietzche'de İnsan Problemi (Problem of the Human in Shopenhaure and
Nietzsche, 1966), Schopenhauer ve İnsan
(Schopenhauer and Man, 1967), Liselerimizde
Felsefe Öğretimi (Education of Philosophy in our High Schools, 1969), İnsan ve Değerleri (Man and His Values,
associate professorship thesis, 1971), Etik
(Ethics, 1977), Sanata Felsefeyle Bakmak (Regarding
Arts via Philosophy, 1980), Çağın
Olayları Arasında (Amongst the Events of the Time, 1981), Uludağ Konuşmaları (Speeches in Uludağ,
1988), Elli Yıllık Deneyimlerin Işığında
Türkiye'de ve Dünyada İnsan Hakları (Human Rights in Turkey and in the
World in the Light of my Fifty Years of Experience, communiqués presented at
the conference held in Ankara on 1-3 October 1998; publication preparation in
collaboration with Bülent Peker, 1999).
POETRY: She published a poetry book in
Greek (Turkish name: Perdenin Arkası - Behind
the Curtain, 1962).
In addition, she has translated many works.
REFERENCE: İhsan Işık / Resimli ve Metin Örnekli Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları Ansiklopedisi (2006, gen. 2. bas. 2007) - Ünlü Fikir ve Kültür Adamları (Türkiye Ünlüleri Ansiklopedisi, C. 3, 2013) - Encyclopedia of Turkey’s Famous People (2013), Baskın Oran / Prof. Kuçuradi büyük ödülü aldı (Radikal, 31.7.2011).
