@article{article_812939, title={PROBLEM DETERMINATION IN TURKISH NATIONALISM IN TERMS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL METHODOLOGY}, journal={Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi}, volume={3}, pages={179–187}, year={2018}, DOI={10.26899/inciss.167</doi>}, author={Doğrucan, Fatih}, abstract={In this paper, rather than defining the Turkish nationalism we focused on the purpose of describing the sociology of the nation concept which will define it. We tried to evaluate the idea of nationalism as a special philosophy focusing on the knowledge of the nation concept. Therefore the nation concept turned into an ontological concept about which information must be obtained, while the nationality idea turned into the epistemology of the nation ontology, consequently the nationalism concept turned into a school type as the ideological study of the episteme. The existence and its categories may vary. We focused on the universal categorical processes of the definitions of the nation as required by the anthropic and sociologic principles. We faced with the difference between the settled societies and the nomadic societies. We continued our intellectual speculation by placing this on the ontic difference base. Moving from the criticism on the settled society sociology or the west-oriented sociologies, we found out that the nationalism that develops depending on the nomadic sociology, especially the idea of the Turkish nationalism had been ignored. The sedentariness phenomenon, which is placed at the center by the nature of the nationalism currents after the French Revolution, in connection with the patriotism idea with a west-oriented description, does not comply with the nationalism character of the Turkish nation which is the bearer of nomadic culture, therefore we emphasized that the nation idea, which is the dominant element in scope of the Turkish nationalism is required to have its own definition.One of the most significant observations we made in this paper is thatthe emotional propaganda ground applied by the perspective of nationalism that develops as compathy, makes clear its nature which interrupted the search for the rational nationalism and its development.}, number={1}, publisher={Hakan YALAP}