Bilimin Rehberliğinde Değişimden Yana Olan Pozitivist Bir Düşünür: Mehmet Emin Erişirgil
Pozitivist Thinker Mehmet Emin Erişirgil who is Supporting Changes with Science Guide

Summary/Abstract: Erisirgil, a positivist intellectual who believes that social development is possible only when it is accompanied by science, states that social causes that effect revolution must be analysed through a scientific attitude in order to be able to form an understanding of the Turkish Revolution and to make assumptions on its future. To Erisirgil, we can perceive the occurrence of revolution as we experience it. However, perceiving it may not be enough to understand and relate it. Unless we contemplated the causes of the perceived thing, systematized it and determined its philosophy, it would not be possible for it to be understood and adopted. That’s why, a stream of thought or a social change may possibly turn back to its position in the past if its ideology is not soundly established. Through a holistic perspective, Erisirgil defines the Turkish state as a whole with its new social understanding, the institutions that are based on this understanding and its approach to economy. And this whole must be scientifically analysed. Explaining the relation between modernity and secularity, Erisirgil asserts that “Revolution has necessitated the secular state”. To him, state, in this century, appears to be a secular institution. For a state to be an institution serving ethereal purposes, It must be devoid of ıts an entity as a state. It is not possible for a state to survive today if it is devoid of a secular content. To Erisirgil, for a state to preserve its existence, it has to struggle to rid itself of the dominance of ideas and groups that exert themselves as ethereal. This also complies with the nature of religion. From a secular viewpoint, Erisirgil also suggests that religious issues must be treated separately from state matters and revolution maintains the state independence as well as offering freedom to religion by directing it to its own premise.

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