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Course Code: 
PHIL 101
Semester: 
Fall
Course Type: 
Core
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Laboratuvar Saati: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
5
Course Language: 
English
Course Objectives: 
The inner and discreet aim of this class is fo find an answer to the question “what is philosophy?”. Students will be provided with the different ways of philosophizing of different philosopher throughout the history of philosophy. Sub-fields of philosophy (ethics, ontology, and epistemology) will be demarcated.
Course Content: 

The difference between philosophy and other fields with regard to their ways of working, along with the types of be-ing, knowing and the whatness of concept will be discussed. The question “what is...?” is posed as the basic determining question of philosophy. Students are informed about ethics, epistemology, ontology and also aesthetics.

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Exam , B: Experience C: Homework

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course a student:

Program Learning Outcomes

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

1. recognizes and discusses basic problems of the history of philosophy.

2,4,9

1,2,3

A,C

2. becomes apt at determining the topic in discussion, questioning and not losing the object.

2,4

1,2,3

A,C

3. recognizes and discusses basic problems of the history of philosophy

9

1,2,3

A,C

4.  knows the object and working way of philosophy.

2,7

1,2,3

A,C

5.   becomes apt at reading and analyzing texts.

1,2,9

1,2,3

A,C
 
 

Course Flow

WEEKS

TOPICS

Study Materials

1

Introduction

  

2

Plato: Whatness of Justice (Politeia; Book I, II, III, IV)

  

3

Aristotle: Willing and unwilling actions (Nicomachean Ethics, Chapter III)

    Three types of Friendship (Nicomachean Ethics, Chapters VIII - IX)

  

4

St. Augustine’s concept of ‘time’ (Confessiones, Book XI)

  

5

David Hume ‘Of Love and Marriage’

  

6

Immanuel Kant: ‘What is enlightenment?’

 

7

MIDTERM

  

8

Martin Heidegger: ‘What is Philosophy?’

  

9

Martin Heidegger: “What is Philosophy?”

  

10

Martin Heidegger: “What is Philosophy?”

  

11

Gilles Deleuze & Félix  Guattari: “What is Philosophy?”

  

12

Gilles Deleuze & Félix  Guattari: “What is Philosophy?”

  

13

Peter Singer: “Animal Liberation”

  

14

Strict ethical veganism:

  Gary Steiner: “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable”

  

145

FINAL EXAM

  
 
 

Recommended Sources

Textbook

  

Additional Resources

Aristoteles, Nikomakhos’a Etik, trans. by Saffet Babur (Ankara: Bilgesu, 2007).

Aristotle, Metaphysics, trans. by Joe Sachs (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Green Lion Press, 2002).

Augustinus, Confessiones, trans. By Henry Chadwick (Oxford World’s Classics)

Gilles Deleuze & Félix  Guattari: ‘What is Philosophy?’

Immanuel Kant: ‘What is enlightenment?’

Martin Heidegger: ‘What is Philosophy?’ trans. by William Kluback and Jean T Wilde (New Haven, Conn.: College University Press, 1956).

Plato, Republic, trans. by C. D. C Reeve (Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 2004).

Strict ethical veganism: Gary Steiner: “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable”

 

Peter Singer: Animal Liberation, the definitive classic of the animal movement, Pimlico, 1975.
 
 

Material Sharing

Documents

 

Assignments

 

Exams

  
 
 

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Mid-terms

1

30

Assignments

1

20

Final Examination

1

50

Total

 

100

CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE

 

50

CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE

 

50

Total

 

100
 

 

COURSE CATEGORY

Core Area Course
 
 

Course’s Contribution to Program

Programme OUTCOMES

 

Contribution*

 

1

2

3

4

5

1. Grasps the fundamental concepts and analytical methods necessary to succeed in academic studies in the field of philosophy.

 

 

 

 

X

 

2. Acquires a versatile critical and analytical approach, and problem-solving, interpretative and argumentative skills necessary for a successful career in philosophy.

 

 

 

X

 

3. . Communicates effectively, is specifically successful in written and oral presentation, has proper capacities for teamwork and interdisciplinary studies, takes the initiative, has developed a sense of responsibility, contributes original ideas to the field of philosophy, and is loyal to ethical principles.

 

 

 

X

 

 

4. . Reaches the perfection of pursuing professional and personal development by using all means of knowledge with a view to lifelong learning.

 

 

 

 

X

 

5. Develops a consciousness of professional and social ethics.

 

 

X

 

 

6. Gains the skills of choosing and developing contemporary means required in philosophical applications as well as using computing technologies effectively.

 

 

 

X

 

7. Acquires substantial knowledge of the history of philosophy.

 

 

X

 

 

8. Learns a classical and at least one modern foreign language so as to read the historical texts of philosophy in the original.

X

 

 

 

 

9. Pinpoints, recognizes, grasps and discusses the problems of philosophy within their context in the history of philosophy.

 

 

 

X

 

10. Develops perfection in reading, understanding and analyzing philosophical texts in different languages.

 

 

X

 

 

 

ECTS

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 15x Total course hours)

15

3

45

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

10

4

40

Mid-terms

1

15

15

Assignments

1

10

10

Final Examination

1

15

15

Total Work Load

 

 

125

Total Work Load / 25 (h)

 

 

5

ECTS Credit of the Course

 

 

5
 
 

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