Turkish Studies - Economics, Finance, Politics eISSN: 2667-5625 INTERNATIONAL BALKAN UNIVERSITY www.turkishstudies.net/economy Research Article / Araştırma Makalesi Sponsored by IBU Cite as/ Atıf: Akıncı, M. (2020). Merkezine Anadolu’yu alan teorik bir perspektif neden gereklidir?, Turkish Studies - Economy, 15(1), 1-8. https://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.41438 Received/Geliş: 21 January/Ocak 2020 Checked by plagiarism software Accepted/Kabul: 25 March/Mart 2020 Published/Yayın: 30 March/Mart 2020 Copyright © INTAC LTD, Turkey CC BY-NC 4.0 Merkezine Anadolu’yu Alan Teorik Bir Perspektif Neden Gereklidir? Why A Theoretical Perspective That Takes Anatolia to Its Center is Essential Mehmet Akıncı * Abstract: When we think about politics with the future, we can examine it in two. The first is politics as a science, the other is politics as a theory. The first of this classification, politics as a science, is not directly related to the future. The type of politics that we mean here is a branch of social sciences that has moved away from value judgments to understand the “reality”objectively. The second type of politics focuses on what should be, not what is, and is often called political theory. Political theory, the second type of politics, is not intended to understand what exists, it focuses on what should be. In this context, it is related to the questions "What is a society that can be realized" and "How can a good society be? Liberal and Marxist ideologists often led the quest for changing society, transforming and what a good social order should be. The theoretical understanding of liberalism is based on self-interested human nature. To build theoretical construction on the self-interest nature of human means, to act from the existing. Based on the existing, it is not possible to reach what it should be. To act from what is existing here, in other words, to act from the self-interested human nature, means to legitimize the existing system. Marxist approaches, on the other hand, offer orientalist liberation prescriptions to the world with a Eurocentric history reading. Assuming that the rest of the world will pass through all the stages that Europe has gone through, preparing a prescription for salvation for the whole world is a big utopia. Based on these deficiencies in the theoretical propositions of politics, it was suggested that our country's theoretical understanding of politics should be centered in Anatolia. Structured Abstract: We can examine politics by dividing it into two while considering the future together. The first is politics as a science, while the other is politics as a theory. The first of this classification is that politics as a science is not directly related to the future. The kind of politics we mean here is a branch of the social sciences that is directed to objectively understand “what is” by moving away from value judgments. The second type of politics focuses not on “what is”, but on “what is supposed to be”, and is often called a political theory. The fundamentals of this conception date back to Plato. According to Plato, “truth “or “real” stems not from the relationships experienced, but from the world of form that bases life. The world of Form is reached by a theoretical “view”, not by the knowledge obtained by experimentation and error. A political theory about founding and changing society does not arise from * Doç. Dr., Aksaray Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü Assoc. Prof. Dr., Aksaray University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration 0000-0001-5131-3056 makinci76@gmail.com