COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LOGICAL STATUS OF RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6226 LOGICAL STATUS OF RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

To observe the relation between language and logic from the point of view of these two disciplines and to improve the understanding of attendants about word, meaning and rigtness with a comparative examples and supply them specific knowledge about these topics.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The attendant will find oppurtunity for analysing language deeply.
2   Will grasp the realtion between language and other disciplines.
3   Will improve the knowledge and practise on rhetoric.
4   Will gain experiences about religious language, its usage and problems.
5   Will grasp the importance of using language rightly without making mistakes in scientific, philosophical and religious areas.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The relation of words with things
2 Definitive characteristics and definitions
3 Meaning
4 The meaning of modernity and its Language
5 What is the word
6 The varieties of the words
7 The word and Sufî
8 Midterm Exam
9 The boundaries and possibilities of Language
10 Paradoxical propositions
11 Rhetoric and its varieties. Analogy in the religious propositions
12 Rhetoric and its elements. Symbolic statements in religion
13 Rhetoric and style
14 Studying some texts in the light of Language and logic

Recomended or Required Reading

Aristoteles, Retorik; Çev. M. Doğan, Ist.1995;
Ibrahim Emiroğlu, Sûfi ve Dil, Ist. 2002;
Turan Koç, Din Dili, Kayseri, trs;
Ibn Rüşt, Tutarsızlığın Tutarsızlığı; Çev. Kemal Işık-Mehmet Dağ, Samsun 1986;
Wilson, Dil, Anlam ve Doğruluk, Çev. I. Emiroğlu, A. Tüzer.
Necdet Çağıl, Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Kitab-ı Mukaddes, Ankara 2005;
Latif Tokat, Dinde Sembolizm, Ankara 2004;
John Hospers, Felsefi Çözümlemelerde Yöntem, Çev. Ş.Filiz, M.Harmancı, Konya 2002.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Search, Question- Answer, task and practice

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


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Analysing the relation between language and logic , learning various usages of language, attendants will improve their abilties for abstaining from logical mistakes.

Assessment Criteria

The success of attendant is examined by examination and lecture performances (language, meaning, rightness, right usage, language spaces, multiple meaning, obscurity).

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ibrahim.emiroglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 163

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.15454
LO.25454
LO.35454
LO.45454
LO.55454