Özet:

Namık Kemal is a Tanzimat intellectual who tries to realize concepts that can be considered new according to the period he lived. In addition to his journalism, the author, who works in various genres of literature such as poetry, novel and theater, conveyed the values he believes to his readers through art. Known as the historical novel of Turkish literature in the Tanzimat Period, Cezmi was written by Namık Kemal and published in 1880. It is seen that many human subjects such as heroism, bondage, love, cheating, greed, lust are discussed in the novel, in which historical names are mentioned together with Cezmi, who gave the work its name. For this reason, both ethics and aesthetics have taken place in the novel of Cezmi, remarkably. It is one of the main areas of ethical and aesthetic philosophy. Ethics, which is generally tried to be explained within the moral philosophy, in its most basic form is "What is good?" it was addressed with the question. Aesthetics is a term that finds its counterpart wherever there is art, is frequently used in daily life, and can even be interpreted as a form of behavior. Ethics is an important element in Cezmi in terms of Namık Kemal's ideas on the function of literature. Aesthetics is the most fundamental feature of a work of art. In this respect, besides being a work of art in itself, the author also emphasizes aesthetics by making use of many different branches of art. Cezmi is a remarkable novel with these features at a time when some values and concepts emerged and many innovations were tried to be realized in the artistic context.