Abai About the Whole Man: Unity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty

2021

Closed access Metadata (CSL-JSON)
DOI 10.48010/2021.2/1999-5911.02
Data confidence 70 medium
How this score is calculated

It is built from checkable properties of the record itself: whether the article has a DOI, how many independent sources confirmed its data, whether the required fields are filled in, and how recent the latest confirmation is. Disagreement between sources and a missing identifier lower it. A value of 80 or above means the record was published without further checking; 60 to 79 means it is published at reduced confidence, with a manual check advisable. A record verified by an editor by hand is never pushed below 90 by a recalculation. This scores our data about the article, not the article itself.

Abstract

Kazakh philosophy, being ethics, aesthetics and at the same time metaphysics, fulfills a great mission: to be a teaching about a beautiful and righteous life. Expressing the spirit of Kazakh culture, Abai Kunanbayev creates at the same time a new value paradigm that determined the life and fate of his native people. The brilliant thinker connects the transformed East and the rethought West, a thinking heart and a conscientious mind under the leadership of Faith. From these positions, he reveals the essence of the philosophy of the “whole person”: overcoming ignorance, laziness, greed, envy, mastering knowledge, understanding work as a condition of full life, developing the ability to think, do good and contemplate beauty. This is the path of the Kazakh people into the space of world history, where they will become an example for other peoples in comprehending the spiritual meanings of life and affirming high moral values.