Biography

Ayhan Bıçak, was born in 1956 in Erzincan. After completing Boğaziçi Behçet Çağlar High School in 1976, he began studying in the Philosopy Department of Istanbul University Literature Faculty from where he graduated in 1982. He took his master's degree from the same department with his thesis on Aristoteles' Perception of Human Beings, Society and History in 1985. He began working in the previously named department as a research assistant. He completed his PhD with his thesis on Platon's Comprehension of History under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Teoman Duralı. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1995, associate professor in 1996 and was assigned  to the permanent staff as an associate professor in 1997. He contines to give lectures on History and Political Philosophy and conducts studies in these fields.
He gives lectures and conducts studies mainly on the disciplines of History and Political Philosophy.
 

Works

Tarih Düşüncesi 1: Tarih Düşüncesinin Oluşumu
(Philosophy of History Vol.I: Formation of Historical Thought)
Number of Pages > 318
Type > Philosophy
Year of Edition > 2004
ISBN > 975-6611-90-1

Tarih Düşüncesi 2: Felsefe ve Tarih
(Philosophy of History Vol.II: History and Philosophy)
Number of Pages > 248
Type > Philosophy
Year of Edition > 2004
ISBN > 975-6611-92-8
 

Tarih Düşüncesi 3: Tarih Felsefesinin Oluşumu
(Philosophy of History Vol.III: Formation of Philosophy of History)
Number of Pages > 309
Type > Philosophy
Year of Edition > 2004
ISBN > 975-6611-93-6
 

Tarih Düşüncesi 4: Tarih Metafizikleri
(Philosophy of History Vol.IV: The Metaphysics of History)
In this study herely named The Metaphysics of History, emerging conditions and causes of the metaphysics of history during New Age of European thought in the 18th and 19th centuries are tackled. The concepts as well as the initial principles of this ripening period of European thought are investigated.
Some of the most important concepts of modern thought and metaphysics of history like reason, freedom, development, the existence or non-existence of meaning in history, collapse, objective and origin problematics are examined in a critical manner and the ways they transformed to social norms are dealt with in large conceptualization. It is also focused on politicization of the meanings of these philosophical terms transformed to social norms, along with the solutions they led to and the problems they caused.
The problem of what kind of a structure a secular universe conception -the modern society feels the need for- should have is evaluated, based on the studiess of well-known philosophers interested in the discipline of history, such as Kant, Hegel, Comte, Marx and also Condorcet, Herder, Spencer, Spengler and Toynbee. The philosophers above and their studies on metaphysics of history, are amongst the most apparent examples which show that the link between philosophy and social problems is very strong. The Industrial Revolution, the Liberal Revolution and the French Revolution which have shaped the modern world in all its aspects, and also the new norms which came out linked to them, as well as the problematic of constituting a new universe conception to overcome the depressions caused by these norms are the driving forces of metaphysics of history.
In today’s world, metaphysics of history is necessary in order to understand why modern thought is dominant, why globalism is easily appropriated and also to find the reasons of loss of identity and means of getting rid of these problems.

Number of Pages > 259
Type > Philosophy
Year of Edition > 2005
ISBN > 978-975-995-006-5