Download or read book Dilemmas of the New World : Man's Search For Himself In The New World written by Serol Aksel and published by Kindle Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'New world' carries multiple connotations. While it traditionally denotes newly discovered territories, such as the American continent, in this context, it signifies the profound and transformative shift that the world has undergone over the past three centuries. This shift, which finds its roots in the Enlightenment and modernity, began to manifest itself more prominently after the First World War. While this transformation is often equated with globalization, its origins can be traced back to the era of industrialization and the rise of nation-states, which set the stage for subsequent global shifts. Dilemma is a subject of logic, but it is also used in daily life. In daily use, it often evokes contradictory situations. It is expected to correspond to inextricable, knotted, cyclical situations. What I mean by the dilemmas of the new world is the social order and view of the universe that humanity has lived in since the age of curiosity, that is, from the middle of the 18th century to the present day, at least ten thousand years since the world transitioned to agricultural society, the fact that the understanding of morality and most importantly, the meaning it attributes to its existence have brought with them insurmountable problems despite the changes in direction. While this new era was a game changer on the one hand, on the other hand, the meaning that man attributed to himself in every new thing he discovered with the development of science and technology was shaken. Existentialism emerged as a result of this new state of thinking. While the new attribution of meaning isolated man on the one hand, on the other hand, nation-states consisting of human communities gathered around a common ideal were established. Individual freedoms and gathering around a common goal became in conflict at some points. While humanism, the most crucial emphasis of the Enlightenment, glorified human beings on the one hand, on the other hand, there were significant obstacles to free thought. On the other hand, while the religious sentiments to which human beings were attached to give meaning to their existence were shaken, new meanings could not be found to replace them. While observations and findings show that the earth is far beyond the centre of the universe, the discovery that man is descended from animals has deeply affected religious beliefs, at least by the world of science and people who believe in the guidance of science. For man, who had to somehow hold on to life, these new teachings could not offer him any. In this state, the world needed new motives and new beliefs. At this very stage, capitalism came to the rescue of humanity. The new system, which pushed man to become a commodity owner, did not give him time to question himself.