İNSAN AKLININ EVRIMSEL GELIŞIMI ÜZERINE: ZIT GÖRÜŞLERIN KISA BIR ANALIZI VE FELSEFI BIR YORUM

Year 2018, Issue: 67, 120 - 143, 15.07.2018

Engin Yurt

Abstract

Bu makalede insan aklının evrimsel gelişimine dair bazı teoriler incelenmiş ve eleştirilmiştir.
Bazı noktada birbirleri ile çelişen bu teorilerin karşılaştırmalı bir okunması üzerinden
bu teorilerin ortak olan eksik yanları ortaya koyulmaya çalışılmıştır. Bu teorilerin
felsefe için anlamı üzerine düşünülmüş ve bu teorilerde mevcut olan lineerlik önvarsayımı
eleştirilmiştir. Ön plana çıkan biliş, kavrayış, anlayış, zekâ, özfarkındalık, bilinç gibi
terimlerin yanı sıra duygu kavramının bu terimler ile ilişkisine vurguda bulunulmuştur.
Görsel Uçurum deneyi üzerinden bu ilişki açık kılınmaya çalışılmıştır.

Keywords

İnsan, Akıl, Evrim, Gelişim, Teori, Felsefe

On the Evolutionary Progress of Human Mind: A Short Analysis of Opposite Views and a Philosophical Interpretation

Abstract

In this article, some teories about evolutionary progress of human mind are examined and
criticised. Through a comparative reading of these theories -which are sometimes contradictionary
to each other- it has been tried to present the common missing parts of these
theories. The meaning of these theories for philosophy has been thought and the pressupposition
of linearity in these teories is criticised. The relation of the concept of emotion
with the terms like cognition, apprehension, comprehension, intellect, self-awareness,
consciousness -which stand forward within these theories- is emphasized. Through the
visual cliff experiment, it has been attempted to clarify this relation.

Keywords

Human, Mind, Evolution, Progress, Theory, Philosophy

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