A study on Hilmi Ziya Ülken's understanding of ethics ethics and aesthetics

Hilmi Ziya Ülken, who has gained an exceptional place in the history of Turkish thought as a social scientist and philosopher, has produced important works especially in the field of philosophy. A significant part of Hilmi Ziya's works focus on ethical and aesthetic issues. Hilmi Ziya's studies in the fields of humans, morality, values, ethics, aesthetics, etc. have been the subject of research in almost every period. In our study, we have included an in-depth examination of Hilmi Ziya Ülken's thoughts on ethics and aesthetics, as well as his contributions to philosophy. At the same time, we tried to determine, as best we could, what Hilmi Ziya meant about ethics and aesthetics and the arguments he developed in this field. In this thesis, Hilmi Ziya Ülken's life, his philosophical understanding and his contributions to the history of Turkish thought, as well as the works, articles and journals he wrote, are revealed and the concepts of ethics and aesthetics are discussed in detail. For Hilmi Ziya, who started philosophy with morality, and followed a parallel path with philosophy and then turned to ethics, morality has become an area that exists in almost every aspect of our lives and is important as a result of people's interactions with each other. According to him, morality is the basis of everything and is the common cause of all people. According to Hilmi Ziya, if there is a moral understanding to be put forward, it should be the morality of love. Because those who have freedom in their souls are the ones who have attained the morality of love. In this research titled ethics and aesthetics, the works of Hilmi Ziya Ülken were taken as the main source. Additionally, document analysis and qualitative research methods were used in this research. In the literature review on Hilmi Ziya Ülken's ethics and aesthetics, it was seen that articles and theses were mostly written about his philosophical side, love ethics, views on aesthetics and his life, both in article type studies and in postgraduate studies. It is thought that our study will help reveal the views on ethics and aesthetics and various studies to be conducted in this context.