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Course Code: 
PHIL 312
Semester: 
Spring
Course Type: 
Core
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Laboratuvar Saati: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
8
Course Language: 
English
Course Objectives: 
The aim of this course is to encourage students to discuss the relationship between art and from the time of Plato life through the texts of the history of philosophy where art is problematized and argued for.
Course Content: 

The development of aesthetics since Kant. The course begins with a detailed study of the sections on aesthetic judgment in the Critique of Judgment. Other figures may include Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida. Themes include the beautiful and the sublime, objective existence of the art work and subjective taste, disinterest and aesthetic pleasure, form and decoration, art and ideals, branches of art and their ranking, art and nature, Dionysian chaos and Apollinian form, frame and content, aesthetic representation and poetic imagination as models of art, interpretation and meaning, material base and artistic qualities, aesthetics as a bridge between knowledge and aesthetics, art as the goal of humanity.​

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Testing, C: Homework

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course a student:

Program

Learning Outcomes

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

1) is informed of the speciality philosophical questioning on problematics of art.

1,2,3,4

1,2,3

A,C

2) is introduced to the relationship between art and philosophy.

1,7,9

1,2,3

A,C

3) starts acquiring the knowledge of how to look at works of art through concepts. 

3,4,6

1,2,3

A,C

4) starts referring to philosophical concepts in relation to theoretical and practical matters.

5,6,10

1,2,3

A,C
 
 

Course Flow

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

Introduction to the relationship between art and life

Definitions of Art and work of art

2

Art, imitation, order in the soul and the city; Plato.

Plato

3

Imitation’s origins and its benefits; Aristotle

Aristoteles

4

Art as Expression Emotions;

Leo Tolstoy, “What is art? ,Clive Bell, “The Aesthetic Hypothesis”

Sanat ve Duygular

5

Art as a question of taste;  David Hume, “Of the Standart of Taste”

Hume

6

Art as a question of taste;  Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Judgement”

Kant

7

Art as a question of taste;  G. W. F. Hegel, “Philosophy of Fine Arts “

Hegel

8

MID-TERM

 

9

Art as World-Making; Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Birth of Tragedy”

Nietzsche

10

Art as World-Making; Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and the Mind”

Merleau-Ponty

11

Art as World-Making; Martin Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art”

Heidegger

12

Discussion concerning the arguments of the end of art through the film; Exit Through the Giftshop, dir. Banksy

Film Analysis

13

The End of Art; Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility”.

Benjamin

14

The End of Art; Jacques Derrida, “Differance”

Derrida

15

Final Examination

 
 
 

Recommended Sources

Textbook

 

Additional Resources

An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory, edited by Stephen David Ross, SUNY Press, NY: 1987

Aesthetics, edited by Susan Feagin&Patrick Maynard, Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1997

Aesthetics: The classic Readings, edited by David E. Cooper, Blackwell Pub, Oxford: 1997

Theory, edited by Stephen David Ross, SUNY Press, NY: 1987

Aesthetics, edited by Susan Feagin&Patrick Maynard, Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1997

Aesthetics: The classic Readings, edited by David E. Cooper, Blackwell Pub, Oxford: 1997
 

Material Sharing

Documents

-

Assignments

-

Exams

-
 
 

Assessment

ASSESSMENT

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Mid-terms

1

30

Assignment

3

30

Final Examination

1

40

Total

 

100

CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE

 

40

CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE

 

60

Total

 

100
 

COURSE CATEGORY

Area specific course
 

Course’s Contribution to Program

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

1

Grasps the fundamental concepts and analytical methods necessary to succeed in academic studies in the field of philosophy.

 

 

X

 

 

2

Acquires a versatile critical and analytical approach, and problem-solving, interpretative and  argumentative skills necessary for a successful career in philosophy.

 

 

 

 

X

3

Communicates effectively, is specifically successful in written and oral presentation, has proper capacities for teamwork and interdisciplinary studies, takes the initiative, has developed a sense of responsibility, contributes original ideas to the field of philosophy, and is loyal to ethical principles.

 

 

 

 

X

4

Reaches the perfection of pursuing professional and personal development by using all means of knowledge with a view to lifelong learning.

 

 

 

X

 

5

Develops a consciousness of professional and social ethics.

 

 

X

 

 

6

Gains the skills of choosing and developing contemporary means required in philosophical applications as well as using computing technologies effectively.

 

 

X

 

 

7

Acquires substantial knowledge of the history of philosophy.

 

X

 

 

 

8

Learns a classical and at least one modern foreign language so as to read the historical texts of philosophy in the original.

X

 

 

 

 

9

Pinpoints, recognizes, grasps and discusses the problems of philosophy within their context in the history of philosophy.

 

X

 

 

 

10

Develops perfection in reading, understanding and analyzing philosophical texts in different languages.

X

 

 

 

 
 
 

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 15x Total course hours)

15

4

60

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

15

4

60

Mid-terms

1

30

30

Assignments

3

5

15

Final examination

1

35

35

Total Work Load

 

 

200

Total Work Load / 25 (h)

 

 

8

ECTS Credit of the Course

 

 

8
 

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