Takiyettin Mengüşoğlu

{{Short description|Turkish philosopher}}

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Takiyettin Mengusoglu (1905–1984) was a Turkish philosopher.{{cite web |url=http://felsefe.istanbul.edu.tr/node/52 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20070517070805/felsefe.istanbul.edu.tr/node/52 |archive-date=17 May 2007 |title=Prof. Dr. Takiyettin Mengüşoğlu (1908 - 1994) |website=felsefe.istanbul.edu.tr}}

Mengusoglu was born in Malatya, Turkey. After finishing high school, he went to Germany and became a student of Nicolai Hartmann. He was known as Takiyettin Temuralp at that time and published Über die grenzen der erkennbarkeit bei Husserl und Scheler in German.{{cite book|title=Über die grenzen der erkennbarkeit bei Husserl und Scheler |date=1937 |first=Takiyettin |last=Temural |language=de |oclc=15508423 |publisher=Verlag für staatswissenschaften und geschichte g. m. h. |location=Berlin}} He is the author of the university level textbook Felsefeye Giriş (Introduction to Philosophy).{{Cite web |url=http://www.remzi.com.tr/index.asp?anakategori=59&kategori=149&kitapid=933 |title=Felsefeye Giriş |website=Remzi Kitabevi |access-date=2008-02-21 |archive-date=2007-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928055606/http://www.remzi.com.tr/index.asp?anakategori=59&kategori=149&kitapid=933 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |title=Felsefeye Giriş |first=Takiyettin |last=Mengüşoğlu |language=tr |location=Istanbul |date=1968 |oclc=23565250}}

Mengüşoğlu founded a new school of anthropology, which he called ontological anthropology. This anthropology deals with man not through any conceptualization but through "his concrete biopsychic wholeness".{{cite journal|url=http://www.edebiyatdergisi.hacettepe.edu.tr/2000172SevgiIyi.pdf |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130626054440/http://www.edebiyatdergisi.hacettepe.edu.tr/2000172SevgiIyi.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2013 |last=Iyi |first=Sevgi |title=Yüzyılımızda İki Antropoloji Anlayışı, Heidegger ve Mengüşoğlu |journal=Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=57-67 |language=tr}} He believed that this new anthropology would be more suitable for approaching and solving concrete problems in the human world.