Özet:

Throughout the history, various cultures have developed set of ideas pertained to them. It is possible to differentiate them by their basic qualities and form different approaches. Interpretation of ideas in their own cultural contexts makes it easier to understand them, however this may also cause to evaluate them faultily. Some prominent thinkers who are raised in different parts of the world and sometimes almost utterly different cultural contexts have asserted such extensive and fruitful ideas that cannot only be evaluated in their cultural values. It is sometimes intellectually stimulating to compare philosophers raised in different cultures without constrain ourselves with their own cultural contexts in order to fully understand them. In doing so, the aim is not to prefer or value a culture above the other, but to consider and evaluate them in a more universal light. In this article, my goal is to review two prominent philosophers Herakleitos and Lao Tzu by comparing them with regard to their two concepts Logos and Tao, without limiting them to their cultural contexts, but also without fully ignoring their cultural contexts in my analysis.