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THE IMAGE OF SHEIKH BEDREDDİN FROM THE EPHOS OF POET TO THE LOGOS OF PHILOSOPHERS
The origin of Plato's conflict with the poet is not only that the poet is interested in images that have a weak position on the ontological dimension. Poets, in particular epic poets such as Homer, are the founding actors of social nomos and ethos. However, Plato has a radical demand for the establishment of social nomos and ethos in his way. Therefore he enters a powerful conflict with the poet. His struggle is the struggle between rationality and imagination or the logos and the epos/mythos. In this context, although he is not Plato’s contemporary, Nâzım Hikmet as an epic writer is also the rival of Plato. Hence, his influence cannot be denied in the creation of the image of Sheikh Bedreddin and a kind of social perception in this regard. It can be asserted that with inspiration from the ancient debate, philosophy is the candidate as in Plato, to establish the social mindset formed by the epic writer. In this study, the image of Bedreddin as a socialist and materialist, which stands out with two dimensions in the imagination of Nâzım Hikmet, will be evaluated by rational methods. Is Sheikh Bedreddin socialist and materialist? Or is the “poet” manipulating the truth by leaving crippled the mind as usual?
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Sheikh Bedreddin, Nâzım Hikmet, Plato and Poet, Materialism, Socialism.