Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904-1983), şiir, anı, tiyatro olmak üzere birçok edebi türde eser vermiş velut yazarlarımız arasındadır. İkisi yarım kalmış on yedi piyesi bulunmaktadır. Reis Bey (1964), yayımlanan sekizinci oyunudur. Oyun, adalet-merhamet kavramları odağında kurgulanmıştır. Çalışmamızda “merhamet” kavramının, sözlüksel anlamının yanı sıra “merhamet”i olumlayan Arthur Schopenhauer (1788...

This provocation argues for a form of digital creative-critical editing to serve as pragmatic complement the dominant “depth” models traditional scholarly editing. What results is pan-relational praxis that focuses on connecting edited texts new contexts and literary experiences with tools, instead using depth model offer correct description, representation, or data those texts. Creative textua...

It is conceivable that some of the properties of the physical world might not be uniquely determined by an underlying dynamical principle, but might instead reflect the requirement that those properties be compatible with the existence of intelligent observers like us, capable of studying them. In modern theoretical physics, this controversial idea is called the “anthropic principle” [1]. Broad...

The text is organised as follows. In the first part, there are six main propositions, preceded by a definition. Referring mainly to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, the first proposition provides the foundation for a phenomenological perspective of science and describes the certainty of uncertainty in any scientific enquiry; following the bad news, the second proposition recovers objectiv...

In the mid 1970s, during my ophthalmology training at Johns Hopkins, the mechanisms involved in the common horizontal misalignments of the eyes (horizontal strabismus) were reasonably well understood. At least the muscles involved were known. But even the common forms of cyclovertical strabismus were poorly understood: overacting /underacting oblique muscles, “A” and “V” patterns, dissociated v...

What an odd thing it is to see an entire species—billions of people—playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call 'music.' This, at least, was one of the things about human beings that puzzled the highly cerebral alien beings, the Overlords, in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Childhood's End. Curiosity brings them down to the Ea...