Diyanet President Erbaş's remarks bring Nebati to mind: 'Epistemological and ontological crisis...'
Speaking at an event organized for the 100th anniversary of the founding of theology faculties, Diyanet President Prof. Dr. Ali Erbaş said, "The most fundamental problem and the most dire crisis of the world over the last three centuries is, in essence, an epistemological and ontological crisis." These words by Prof. Dr. Erbaş brought to mind former Minister of Treasury and Finance and 28th Term Mersin Deputy Nureddin Nebati.
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of theology faculties, an international academic event titled "Theology Faculties in Turkey in Their 100th Year" was held in cooperation with the Turkish Diyanet Foundation Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM), Istanbul University Faculty of Theology, Ankara University Faculty of Theology, Marmara University Faculty of Theology, and Istanbul 29 May University Faculty of Theology.
'EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRISIS'
Speaking at the event, Diyanet President Ali Erbaş stated, "A Western-centric understanding that traps the universal norms of morality and law within its own selfish world has condemned the earth to chaos and war."
Continuing his speech, Erbaş said, "Believers have always considered knowledge with its wisdom and moral dimensions, and have accepted building life on the basis of monotheism and law as the purpose of existence. The most fundamental problem and the most dire crisis of the world over the last three centuries is, in essence, an epistemological and ontological crisis. In other words, the deviations experienced in the conception of knowledge and existence form the basis of social, political, ecological, economic, and global crises, as well as individual depressions and hopelessness. A Western-centric understanding that rejects the transcendent dimension of existence, ignores the connection of the universe with Allah, and traps the universal norms of morality and law within its own selfish world has condemned the entire earth to chaos, war, poverty, and hopelessness."
NEBATI COMES TO MIND
Erbaş's words brought to mind the statement by former Minister of Treasury and Finance Nureddin Nebati: "The heterodox approach, which represents an epistemological break from the neoclassical economic thought, is gaining more importance today with behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, which are increasingly coming to the fore."
These words of Nebati had received extensive coverage in the press at the time.