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Course Code: 
PHIL 143
Course Type: 
Area Elective
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Laboratuvar Saati: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
5
Course Language: 
English
Course Objectives: 
The general purpose of this course is to introduce, discuss and add to some of the main questions that are/ are not posed by philosophers. The course is open to those students from other disciplines and intends to investigate the relationship between questions of philosophy and other sciences; and take them as an object of investigation as well.
Course Content: 

The questioning methods of philosophy, what it is for “question” to be, how and on what grounds it is posed (whether cognitive, scientific, literary, political, aesthetic, ethical) will be investigated. Texts that are to be discussed in class will be selected from those texts of philosophers who represent a certain era in history of philosophy or a certain school. The questions and the argumentations in these texts will be analyzed and discussed with the concepts mentioned in the text.

 

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.  uses basic concepts knowingly when discussing various problems in history of philosophy.

9,7

1,2,3

A,C

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

6

1,2,3

A,C

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

2,4,9

1,2,3

A,C

4. recognizes types of “knowing” and “be-ing”.

1,2

1,2,3

A,C

5.  grasps the whatness of concepts such as aisthesis, kinesis, ousia and to on

1,2

1,2,3

A,C
 
 

Course Flow

WEEKS

TOPICS

Study Materials

1

Introduction

  

2

M. Heidegger: Die Frage nach der Technik

  

3

M. Heidegger: “Explaining Basic Concepts”  (Grundbegriffe, Sommersemester 1941)

  

4

M. Heidegger: “ ‘Logos’ as the principle of beings” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, erster Abschnitt, zweites Kapitel)

  

5

M. Heidegger:  “Seinsproblematik” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, zweiter Abschnitt, zweites Kapitel)

  

6

M. Heidegger: “What is Knowing?” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, zweiter Abschnitt, drittes Kapitel)

 

7

MIDTERM

  

8

M. Heidegger: “What is Perception?” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, zweiter Abschnitt, drittes Kapitel)

  

9

M. Heidegger: “Phainomenon of Logos” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, zweiter Abschnitt, drittes Kapitel)

  

10

M. Heidegger: “Whatness of Categories” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, dritter Abschnitt, drittes Kapitel)

  

11

M. Heidegger: “Ontology of Life and Dasein” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, dritter Abschnitt, fünftes Kapitel)

  

12

M. Heidegger: “Sein as Dynamis and Energeia” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, dritter Abschnitt, drittes Kapitel)

  

13

M. Heidegger: “Kinesis Analysis” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, dritter Abschnitt, viertes Kapitel)

  

14

M. Heidegger: “Zoe Analysis” (Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, GA II. Abteilung, dritter Abschnitt, fünftes Kapitel)

  

15

FINAL EXAMINATION

  
 
 

Recommended Sources

Textbook

  

Additional Resources

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

 

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

 

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

Heidegger, Martin, Der Begriff der Zeit, (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann,

2004).

 

Heidegger, Martin, Grundbegriffe, (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1981).

 

Heidegger, Martin, Grundbegriffe der Antiken Philosophie, (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1993).

 

Heidegger, Martin, Grundbegriffe der Aristotelischen Philosophie, (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2002).

 

Heidegger, Martin, The Essence of Truth, On Plato’s Cave Allegory and Theaetetus, trans. by Ted Sadler (Continuum, 2009).

 

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

 
 
 

Material Sharing

Documents

 

Assignments

 

Exams

  
 
 

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Class Performance

15

15

Mid-terms

1

25

Assignments

1

10

Presentations

1

10

Final Examination

1

40

Total

 

100

CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE

 

40

CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE

 

60

Total

 

100
 

 

COURSE CATEGORY

Area Specific 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

2

20

Mid-terms

1

15

15

Assignments

1

10

10

Presentations

1

20

20

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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