THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH': THE RELATION OF PARTS TO THE WHOLE IN THE RING AND THE BOOK

Authors : Yıldız KILIÇ

Pages : 75-94

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Publication Date : 2014-08-16

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :    'The Truth, The Whole Truth': The Relation Of Parts To The Whole In The Ring and the Book Yıldız KILIÇ    The Ring and the Book transcends 'fragmented' pluralistic isolation to achieve a single philosophical statement on the illusiveness and ambiguity of truth. The impetus is essentially a reaction specifically to that part of the Great Chain of Being that establishes man as a lesser entity to God. The selfconscious subjectivism of Aestheticism in the late Nineteenth Century represents a culminative conclusion to Organicist development, so that humanity is no longer measured against the standard of Nature (imbued with the Divine) but exists by merit of its own measure: Humanism - the sanctity of human existence - is a standard by which the individual is to be recognised as Organic personification of earthly ideal, a superior creation on par with the superior entity of God. To self-defined Nineteenth-Century individualism the abject dislocation that the Chain of Being instigates between man and the divine, which subsequently associates man with the bestial is illustration of the ambiguity of the human condition at yet another conceptual junction: that man's parity to the Divine, indeed his parallel worth, is defined by his proximity to truth.
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