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Prerequisites
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There is no prerequisite for this course.
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Language of Instruction
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Turkish
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Responsible
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Asst. Prof. Dr. Semra Nurdan YAĞLISOYKAN
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Instructors
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1-)Doçent Dr. Zeynep Yüksel
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Assistants
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Lecturers of the department
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Resources
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R1.Sarıkçıoğlu. Ekrem. (1983) Dinler Tarihi. İstanbul: Bayrak Yayımcılık,.
R2.Iqbal, Muhammed. (1968) The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in İslam, Lahore.
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Supplementary Book
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SR1. Taylan, Necip. (1979) İlim ve Din. İstanbul: Çağrı Yayınları.
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Goals
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This course will introduce the history, aims, and methods of the Philosophy of Religion, one of the important disciplines of philosophy, as well as its relations with other related disciplines. Following this brief introduction, detailed and comparative philosophical discussions focusing on the essential issues regarding this field will take place.
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Content
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Roots of religion are deep in human culture. What is religion? How humankind has conceptualized the religious dimension of human experience. Description, scope and method of philosophy of religion, religion and philosophy; foundationalism and fideism, philosophical analysis of the arguments for the existence of God. God-talk, the nature and function of religious language, religious symbolism; the problem of evil and various theodicies; the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and the human freedom. God and the World relation.it covers atheism problem and its basis, the problem of evil, and God, atheist existentialism, the problem of immortality after-life; mind-body problem, the relation of religion to other disciplines such as science, morality and art, religion-science relation and miracle; religious diversity and religious pluralism.
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