THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE RESEARCH OF THE CONCEPTS OF «FAITH» AND «KNOWLEDGE» IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ANCIENT TURKIC LANGUAGE PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Abstract

The present scientific article examines linguistic-philosophical and linguistic-cultural concepts, and is devoted to the constants of Turkic culture, a comprehensive analysis of the concepts of «Faith» and «Knowledge», and the peculiarities of their functioning based on literary monuments of the Turkic Renaissance era. The article presents a linguistic depiction of the world as interpreted by the poet-philosophers Yusuf Balasaguni, Mahmud Kashgari, Ahmet Yugneki, and Ahmet Yasawi. The content of this work constitutes the «core» of Turkic spiritual culture, as determined by the conceptual analysis.

The primary focus of this study is the analysis of the spiritual and religious foundations of the traditional culture of the Old Turkic peoples, whose civilizational core is Tengriism. Firstly, it necessitates an in-depth examination of the philosophical and methodological issues concerning the study of the spiritual and cultural foundations of the Old Turkic civilization. Secondly, it addresses the analysis of the processes of interaction between Tengriism and other religious systems. Thirdly, it presents a novel philosophical interpretation of the monuments of Old Turkic writing, as well as the works of Turkic poet-thinkers who established the foundations of the spiritual culture of Turkic-speaking peoples. This multifaceted approach is necessitated by the need to comprehensively reconstruct the cultural origins of the Turkic peoples.

The concepts of «Faith» and «Knowledge» reflect a complex system of spiritual, moral, and ethical dimensions within the linguistic worldview and the inner, spiritual life of the individual. Concurrently, these phenomena – particularly from a diachronic perspective – have not yet received sufficient attention within the framework of linguistic philosophy and require further multifaceted investigation.