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The Armenian of hikmet-i cedide: philosophy in the late Ottoman Empire
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2024-10-01
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Karademir, Aret
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This essay challenges the ethnocentrism of the dominant literature on hikmet-i cedide, or the new philosophy, in the late Ottoman Empire. Hikmet-i cedide was “new” in the sense that it did not confine itself to theological discussions and interpretations of holy books. Instead, it found its source of inspiration in the principles of modern Western philosophy, and especially the philosophy of the Enlightenment and Auguste Comte’s positivism. The dominant literature reduces this hikmet-i cedide to the philosophical writings of Muslim/ Turkish intellectuals. Problematizing such ethnocentrism, this essay gives an account of hikmet-i cedide from the perspective of Ottoman–Armenians’ early engagement with positivism and the political philosophy of the Enlightenment. It argues that Armenians’ philosophical discourses in the second half of the nineteenth century were characterized by a belief that the principles of the new philosophy were the sine qua non for national survival in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious context of the Empire. They were also characterized by a commitment to reconciling modern Western philosophy with religious attachments. However, this characterization should not be thought to be confined to so-called “Armenian philosophy” but may be generalized to broader late Ottoman thought.
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Armenian
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Ottoman Empire
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positivism
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Enlightenment
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philosophy
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111835
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY
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https://doi.org/10.1017/npt.2024.12
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A. Karademir, “The Armenian of hikmet-i cedide: philosophy in the late Ottoman Empire,”
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY
, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1–20, 2024, Accessed: 00, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111835.