COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE RELATIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND ESTHETICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6102 THE RELATIONS BETWEEN RELIGION AND ESTHETICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 10

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR IBRAHIM EMIROĞLU

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

To show the influence of religion on aesthetics and the influence of aesthetics on what is religious. To teach relationship between aesthetics and basic religious features which are belief in God and ethics and rituals. Aim to achieve the ability of analysis in the religion and to understand the concept of beauty in the aesthetic.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students recognize the important of aesthetics in not only human nature but also in religion.
2   The student can analyze effects of aesthetics on dimensions of ethics and ritual and divinity.
3   The student learns arguments for aesthetics.
4   The students can value the main issues of the Philosophy of Religion with aesthetic perspective.
5   The Student understands relationship between religion and art.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 God and Aesthetics
2 Ontological-Aesthetics Argument and Critics it.
3 Aesthetic Experience and Argument from it.
4 Aesthetic genius and Argument from it (Aesthetics genius) I: The concept of genius and genius in aesthetics.
5 Aesthetic genius and Argument from it II: The Argument from Aesthetic genius and critics.
6 Cosmo-Aesthetic Argument and critics.
7 Teleological Argument
8 Midterm Exam
9 Thoughts of Scientists on the regularity and beauty of the world
10 Argument from face and heart: Argument from meaning of face.
11 Thought of aesthetic Immortality
12 Relationship between Religion or Aesthetic and Education
13 Relationship between Ritual and Aesthetic I: Relationship between ritual and aesthetics in Primitive societies, Music and Ritual
14 Relationship between Ritual and Aesthetic II: Myth and Ritual, Art and Ritual, fighting with holy and new rites in art and religion .

Recomended or Required Reading

1- Aydın Işık, Din ve Estetik: Felsefi Bir Inceleme, Tibyan Yayıncılık, Izmir, 2011.
2- Turan Koç, Islam Estetiği, ISAM Yayınları, Istanbul, 2008.
3- Cafer Sadık Yaran, Lale Delili: Estetikten Etiğe ve Metafiziğe, Dinbilimleri: Akademik Araştırma Dergisi, 9. Cilt, Sayı: 2, Samsun, 2009.
4- Naim Şahin, Gazali'ye Göre Allah'ın Varlığının Delilleri ve Estetik Delil, Adal Ofset, Konya, 2004.
5- Ahmet Kamil Cihan, Ibn Sina ve Estetik, Beyaz Kule, Ankara, 2009.
6- Ismail Tunalı, Estetik, Remzi Kitapevi, 11. Baskı, Istanbul, 2008.
7- Cafer Sadık Yaran, Tanrı Inancının Akliliği, Etüt Yayınları, Samsun, 2000.
8- Umberto Eco, Ortaçağ Estetiğinde Sanat ve Güzellik, Trans. Kelam Atakay, Can Yayınları, Istanbul, 2009.
9- Richard Swinburne, Tanrı Var mı , Trans. Muhsin Akbaş, Arasta Yayınları, Bursa, 1996.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, research, questions-answers, examples of homework on the review and implementation.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.10 + FIN* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.10 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The success of attendant is examined by examination and lecture performances

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aydin.isik@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

15.00-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 12 156
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 250

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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