@article{article_615224, title={Money-Hedonism from Ibn Khaldūn’s Notion of Morality}, journal={Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi}, volume={23}, pages={1331–1347}, year={2019}, DOI={10.18505/cuid.615224}, author={Ilgaroğlu, Muhammet Caner}, keywords={History of Philosophy,Ibn Khaldūn,Badāwa,Ḥaḍāra,Morality,Money-Hedonism}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;text-indent:0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;" xml:lang="en-us">According to </span> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;">Ibn Khaldūn </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;" xml:lang="en-us"> <span style="font-size:14px;">, man is a social entity deeply influenced by
the geo-economics-politics of the environment in which he lives. The effect is
seen as so strong that nearly all of these structures in their relationship to
human beings are dominated by it. In this system, we see human beings as a
creature who is both able to adapt himself to the environment and able to
evolve in this harmony. </span> <span style="font-size:14px;">From the
perspective of </span> </span> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;">Ibn Khaldūn </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;" xml:lang="en-us">, man
cannot be evaluated or defined separately from the environmental conditions,
the technique and architecture he has developed. </span> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;">Ibn Khaldūn </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;" xml:lang="en-us"> sees the primary source of this change to be the
desire to make life both more prosperous and bearable. Therefore, the most
natural motivations that affect man’s desire to alter the natural world are the
environmental challenges that he encounters. The challenges that are imposed
upon man in the natural world are those that have led to human progress. From
badāwa (nomadic society) to </span> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;">ḥaḍāra </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;" xml:lang="en-us">
(sedentary society) and so to the ceaseless drive of human progress that has
served to make life more endurable, every effort in this sense leads to a
physical and moral loosening as the incessant struggle to survive that defines
human existence is made more bearable. Physical slack by breaking the
resistance of man to resist the environmental conditions; and moral looseness
by making man more vulnerable to the temptation of desires, pleasures and
welfare that are the cause of moral dilemmas. Ibn Khaldūn’s moral thought with
its social, political, and other fields of application are all contexts that
enable an understanding of the devaluation of money-hedonist morality in all
ways. This article aims to analyze the social, political and economic dilemmas
and challenges that the capitalist, consumption-based money-hedonist morality (obesity,
social media addiction, consumption, and moral devaluation in the face of
financial, virtual and imagined valuations, etc.) from the perspective of Ibn
Khaldūn. </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> </p> <p> </p> <span style="font-size:14px;"> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;text-indent:0cm;"> <b> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;" xml:lang="en-us">Summary: </span> </b> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;" xml:lang="en-us"> <span style="font-size:14px;">Man is
endowed with both good and evil. Ibn Khaldūn notes that man tends to misuse
these two orientations with a higher inclination towards evil, and that social
conditions have an effect on this. He sees another characteristic of man, that
they develop habits; accordingly, man is the child of his habits. Habits are
second nature to man and affects all of his perceptions, particularly notions
concerning truth. At the same time, human beings are under the constant
influence of both habits, culture, and climate and geography; and all of these
together affect our ethics, psychology and characteristics. Thus, man is a
historical, social being that is changed, transformed and determined by
adapting to these cultural, social, political and ecological conditions. </span> </span> </p> <p> </p> <span style="font-size:14px;"> </span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;text-indent:0cm;"> <span style="font-size:14px;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;">The concept of Money-Hedonism is </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:’Gentium Plus’;" xml:lang="en-us"> <span style="font-size:14px;">one that we have
created by combining the terms </span> <i> <span style="font-size:14px;">monetarism </span> </i> <span style="font-size:14px;">, an economic concept, and </span> <i> <span style="font-size:14px;">hedonism </span> </i> <span style="font-size:14px;">,
a concept in moral philosophy; the resulting term we seek to produce
essentially translates as </span> <i> <span style="font-size:14px;">the adoration of Money </span> </i> <span style="font-size:14px;">. As is well known,
hedonism refers to a philosophy of life that has its origins in the anci}, number={3}, publisher={Sivas Cumhuriyet University}