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Program of Political Science and International Relations (English 30%)

PSIR456

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Course Code
PSIR456
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
5
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS5
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Analyze the connection among the origins of the phenomenon and values, reality and political practice.
  2. Analyze the relationship between ethics and politics.
  3. Analzye the relationship between thought and action, theory and practice.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsThere is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
Course DescriptionThe course covers the ways in which the conceptual contents of society, state, liberty, rights, power and democracy have been transformed throughout a historical process by a survey of major philosophical texts. The aim is to provide a critical analysis of the relationships between the concepts developed in philosophy and corresponding historical manifestations of political institutions and organizations.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Ethics, truth, philosophy and politics - I
2nd Week Ethics, truth, philosophy and politics - II
3rd Week Authority and liberty - I
4th Week Authority and liberty - II
5th Week Ethics and Politics - Kant I
6th Week Ethics and Politics - Kant II
7th Week Midterm Exam
8th Week Marx and the Ethics of Freedom - I
9th Week Marx and the Ethics of Freedom - II
10th Week Thought, Judgement, Action: From Heidegger to Arendt-I
11th Week Thought, Judgement, Action: From Heidegger to Arendt-II
12th Week Labour, work and action: Arendt-I
13th Week Labour, work and action: Arendt-II
14th Week Presentations
Recommended or Required ReadingRequired Readings
AKARSU, Bedia (1999) Immanuel Kant'ın Ahlak Felsefesi, İstanbul: İnkılap Yayınları.
ARENDT, Hanna (2003) İnsanlık Durumu, Çev. B. S. Şener, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.
ARENDT, Hanna (1996) Geçmişle Gelecek Arasında, Çev. B. S. Şener, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.
BRENKERT, George G. (1983) Marx's Ethics of Freedom, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
ÇÜÇEN, A. Kadir (2003) Heidegger'de Varlık ve Zaman, İstanbul: Asa Yayınları.
FLIKSCHUH, Katrin (2000) Kant and Modern Political Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
KUÇURADİ, Ioanna (1988) Etik, Ankara: Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu.
MACINTYRE, Alasdair (1998) Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Univ of Notre Dame Pr.
ÖĞE, S. Yazıcıoğlu, Ö. Sözer & F. Tomkinson (Ed.) (2002) Metafizik ve Politika. Martin Heidegger , Hannah Arendt, İstanbul: Boğaziçi University Press.
Recommended Readings
ADAMS, Ian, (1989) The Logic of Political Belief: A Philosophical Analysis of Ideology, Maryland: Barnes & Noble Books.
ARISTOTELES (1975) Politika, Çev. M. Tuncay, İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi.
BRENKERT, George G. (1998) Marx'ın Özgürlük Etiği, Çev. Y. Alogan, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları.
BOSWORTH, Stephen C. ( 1991) Hegel's Political Philosophy, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
HEGEL, G. W. Friedrich (1986) (Ed.), Seçilmiş Parçalar, Çev. N. Bozkurt, İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi.
HEIDEGGER, Martin (1967) Being and Time, Tr. By J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson, Oxford: Blackwell.
HEIDEGGER, Martin (1997) Tekniğe Yönelik Soru, İstanbul: Afa Yayınları.
KANT, Immanuel (ed) (1991) Kant, Political Writings, ed. By Hans Reiss, Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres.
KANT, Immanuel Aydınlanma Nedir, Seçilmiş Yazılar, çev. Nejat Bozkurt. Remzi kitabevi
KUÇURADİ, Ioanna (1999) Nietzsche ve İnsan, Ioanna Kuçuradi, Ankara: Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu.
MACINTYRE, Alasdair (2001) Ethik'in Kısa Tarihi: Homerik Çağdan Yirminci Yüzyıla, Çev. H. Hünler, S. Z. Hünler, İstanbul: Paradigma Yayınları.
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich (1990) İyinin ve Kötünün Ötesinde: Bir Gelecek Felsefesini Açış, Çev. A. İnam, İstanbul: Ara Yayınları.
NIETZSCHE Friedrich ( 2002) Güç İstenci: Bütün Değerleri Değiştiriş Denemesi, Çev. S. Umran, İstanbul: Birey Yayıncılık.
NIETZSCHE Friedrich ( 2002) Putların Alacakaranlığı, Çev. İ.Z.Eyüpoğlu, İstanbul: Say Yayınları.
OWEN, David ( 1995) Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity: A Critique of Liberal Reason, London: Sage Publication.
PLATON, Gorgias, http://classics.mit.edu/Browse
PLATON (1980) Devlet, Çev. S. Eyüboğlu, M. A. Cimcoz, İstanbul: Ramzi Kitabevi.
RAPHAEL, David Daiches ( 1990) Problems of Political Philosophy, London: Macmillan Press.
SCOTT, Charles E. (1996) On the Advantages an Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indianapolis University Press.
STRAUSS, Leo (1989) An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
STRAUSS, Leo (2000) Politika Felsefesi Nedir? Çev. S. Z. Hünler, İstanbul: Paradigma Yayınları.
WARREN, Mark (1991) Nietzsche and Political Thought, Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 30
Project 1 20
Total(%) 50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 1 1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work 14 2 28
Preparation for Final exam 1 35 35
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 25 25
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 1 1
Homework
Project 1 20 20
Total Work Load152
Total Work Load / 30 (h)5.06
ECTS Credit of the Course5
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

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