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Course Code: 
PHIL 130
Course Type: 
Area Elective
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Laboratuvar Saati: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
5
Course Language: 
Turkish
Course Objectives: 
The aim of this course is to introduce the students with and discuss basic terms and concepts of philosophy through texts of history of philosophy.
Course Content: 

The Presocratic, Ancient and Medieval periods of the history of philosophy will be explored through the texts defining these periods.

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Testing, 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) is informed of the speciality philosophical questioning.

1,3,4

1,2,3

A,C

2) is introduced with philosophical concepts.

6,7,9

1,2,3

A,C

3) starts acquiring the knowledge of how to look at texts of the history of philosophy through concepts. 

1,7,9

1,2,3

A,C

4) starts referring to philosophical concepts in relation to theoretical and practical matters.

3,4,5

1,2,3

A,C

 
 

Course Flow

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

Introduction to Philosophy

Basic principles of philosophy

2

Introduction to philosophical questioning

Basic principles of philosophy

3

Laying the foundation of philosophical thinking through Presocratic Philosophy “The Science of the Ion before Socrates”

Presocratics

4

Socrates

Socrates

5

Plato’s Apology

Plato

6

Reading of Plato’s Cave Allegory from the Republic as the foundation of the method of dialectics.

Plato

7

Discussion on Plato’s Ion dialogue

Homer’s Iliad

8

MID-TERM

 

9

Laying the foundation of Aristotelian philosophy

Aristotle

10

Reading of Aristotle’s Poetics

 

Poetics

11

Reading of Aristotle’s Nichomechean Ethics

Aristotle

12

Laying the foundation of Medieval Philosophy starting from Plotinos’s Enneades

Plotinos

13

Reading of Confessions by Augustinus

Augustinus

14

Is there a God?, St. Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways

Aquinas

15

Discussion concerning Islamic Philosophy

Islamic Philosophy

 
 

Recommended Sources

Textbook

Walther Kranz, Antik Felsefe: Metinler ve Açıklamalar, Çev. Suad Y. Baydur, Sosyal Yayınları

F. MacDonald Conford, Sokrates’ten Önce ve Sonra, Çev. Ufuk Can Akın, Ayraç Yayınları, Ankara, 2003

Ortaçağda Felsefe, “Plotinos”, Betül Çotuksöken, Saffet Babür

Additional Resources

Platon, Devlet, çev. Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, M.Ali Cimcoz, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul, 2000

Platon, Diyaloglar I, Remzi Kitabevi

 Aristoteles, Poetika, Çev. İsmail Tunalı, Remzi Kitabevi

Platon, Şölen, Çev. Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Azra Erhat, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları

 
 

Material Sharing

Documents

-

Assignments

-

Exams

-

 
 

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Mid-terms

1

30

Assignments

5

20

Final Paper

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

Area specific course

 
 

Course’s Contribution to Program

No

Program Learning 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

3

30

Mid-terms

1

20

20

Assignments

5

2

10

Final Paper

1

20

20

Total Work Load

 

 

125

Total Work Load /   25 (h)

 

 

5

ECTS Credit of the Course

 

 

5