Department of Philosophy

Esthetıcs(PH206)

Course Code Course Name Semester Theory Practice Lab Credit ECTS
PH206 Esthetıcs 4 3 0 0 3 6
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Language of Instruction French
Course Type Compulsory
Course Level Bachelor Degree
Course Instructor(s) Melih BAŞARAN mbasaran@gsu.edu.tr (Email)
Assistant
Objective Knowledge of aesthetic theories and approaches from a philosophical viewpoint
Content Comparative knowledge of ancient and modern approaches to the situation of art and the value of beautiful; kantian theory of beautiful and sublime; epistemological evaluation of aesthetic judgments; problems concerning history of arts; work of art and meta-aesthetic problems
Course Learning Outcomes 1. Comparative knowledge of ancient and modern approaches to the situation of art and the value of beautiful

2. Kantian theory of beautiful and sublime

3. Epistemological evaluation of aesthetic judgments. ,

4. Problems concerning history of arts; work of art and meta-aesthetic problems
Teaching and Learning Methods Reading and interpretation of textes and synthesis
References Plato, The Republic
Plato, Timaeus
Aritotle, Poetics
Kant, Critique of Judgment
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Theory Topics
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1 Ontological value of work of art in Plato’s Idea theory
2 From the question of demiurge and from creation to the question of production
3 Difference between work of art and production
4 Kantian critique of sensory judgments and aesthetic judgments
5 Of utility and impartiality in the judgments of taste
6 Of art as endless end and as freedom of taste
7 On use of faculties and its relation to different judgments
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9 Of difference between object itself and its form or its representation
10 Question of beauty and nature independent of its end
11 From form to inform: question of sublime mathematics and dynamics
12 From harmonious relation between imagination and understanding to discordant relation between violated imagination and reason
13 Genesis of Ideas of reason as meta-aesthetic
14 Meta-aesthetics as the place of meditation on nature’s supersensory end within ourselves and outside of ourselves
Practice Topics
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