Din Eğitiminde İnsanın Ontolojisine Kierkegaardcı Bir Bakış

• Published in: İlahiyat tetkikleri dergisi no. 61; pp. 79 - 91
• Main Authors: Uçar, Recep, Kurt, Tuba
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Turkish
• Published: Atatürk Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi 2024; Atatürk University Faculty of Theology
• Subjects: Education; Existentialism; Ontology; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Religion; Human; Ontology; Religious Education; Progressivism; Kierkegaard; Existentialism; Humanism
• ISSN: 2458-7508; 2602-3946

The view of the human being in religious education in our country is shaped according to approaches that base their theology on Islam and their philosophy on the progressive-humanist modern understanding of education. Therefore, the theoretical background of the ontology of the human being in religious education is formed by Islamic thought and the human conception of the progressive-humanist tradition. It is seen that Islamic thought places the conception of a free and responsible human being at the center of the world of existence in proportion to his/her individual will. In the modern education system carried out on the axis of the progressivehumanist paradigm, however, the view of the human being is to see the individual's self-knowledge and selfrealization as the main goal by focusing on his/her interests, needs and experiences. In this case, it can be said that religious education's view of human beings is based on an eclectic ontology. Although the efforts of Islamic thought beings and humanize education are seen as a great accumulation of knowledge, the awareness of human beings towards their own existence appears as the deficiencies of both approaches. In this case, the question of how to ensure awareness of human existence in religious education, on which grounds the basic sources, references and the view of human beings will be built is a fundamental problem for the ontology of religious education. The aim of the research is to address the view of human ontology in religious education based on the deficiencies of Islamic thought and modern educational understanding and to try to shape it on the basis of the existential processes that lead to the concrete human understanding of Kierkegaard, who laid the foundations of existentialism. In the study, the answer to how religious education will shed light on the realization of one's existence as an individual has also been tried to be sought. As a result of the study, it was seen that in religious education, it is necessary to create the ontology of the human being not on a horizontal and individual level, but on a vertical and metaphysical ground. Realizing this in religious education will be possible by satisfying the mind and heart of the individual, ensuring that what is taught has an equivalent in life, and creating a subjective and intrinsic understanding of religiosity.