Mustafa Mencutekin – författare

Trust in the unity of knowledge was initially shaken by Descartes' Cartesian dualism. This quake was followed by positivism in the 19th century. On the binary scale, it was ignorance against scientific thought up until positivism replaced it with religious faith and reasoning. From then on, that peculiarity of dualism has been coiling around the circles of philosophy and knowledge almost as a dogma, whereas in reality, science and faith are two different lights that emanate from the same truth. Yes, there exist some stances seeking to present science and religious faith in opposition to one another. It is even claimed that an individual scientist may be a believer, but science itself must be unbelieving. This humble collection of articles published in The Fountain Magazine infers that science and faith walk side by side on the path seeking to uncover the nature of human beings and the mysteries of creation. Any kind of knowledge, however scientific it may be, is doomed to err if it rejects the co-operation of faith. The situation has been that human beings, from time to time, have denied religion in the name of science and denied science in the name of religion, arguing that the two present conflicting views from one another. Consequently, the fundamental question that needs to be answered is simple: If all knowledge belongs to God and religion is from Him, how then can the two be in conflict?

Offering a particular world view, understanding of economics, popular trademarks, and ways of consumption, modernity compels "modern" and "isolating" sorts of relationship that ostracises "the family" from its territories as it is the most strongest station of resistance to so called virtues of modernity. In short, modernism simply tears "the family" to shreds as masses of people that have emigrated to metropolises and undergone economic woes are now fully imprisoned by the concepts of "the nuclear family", that is a mere euphemism of "family lost", and a tendency of a life lead independent from "the family". This collection of articles that have been published afore in The Fountain Magazine seeks reasonable answers to the vital question of how a new ideal of family could be constructed without passing over the spirit of time, be it called as "modern or post-modern times". The articles handle the essential issues of "the family" and do not neglect the vitality of upbringing the fruits of it, who are mostly called the generation of internet or the age of technology.