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Course Unit Title Course Unit Code Type of Course Unit Level of Course Unit Year of Study Semester ECTS Credits
History of Political Toughts ILT211 Elective Bachelor's degree 2 Fall 4

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. İhsan KARLI
Associate Prof. Dr. Saadet Zeynep VARLI GÜRER
Assistant Prof. Dr. Akın DEVECİ
Research Assistant Dr. Ali Murat VARLI

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Gains knowledge about political thoughts which impresses society
1) have knowledge about the political ideas that direction plumsal life 2 will have information about the development of political thought tarhisel 3 recognizes the political thoughts that arise in the social development process 4 Politics defines the basic concepts related to the history of political thought, such as political power 5 think that contribute to the development of political thought from ancient Greek and list the works 6 socio-political ethos in Ancient Greek and Roman Diagnosis
2) Gains knowledge about historical process of political thoughts
3) Recognizes the political thoughts that consists in process of social development
4) Defines the main concepts like politics and politic virility in political thoughts
5) Lists the philosophers and their studies that effect politicat thoughts
6) Recognizes the social, political and cultural structure in ancient Greek and Rome

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

  Program Competencies
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Learning Outcomes
1 Middle Middle Low Low High Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Low High
1 High High Middle High High High Middle Low Low Middle Middle Middle Middle
2 High High High Middle High Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle High High
3 High Middle Middle Middle High Middle Middle Middle No relation Middle Middle Middle Middle
4 Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle Low Low Low Middle Middle Middle Middle
5 Middle Middle Low Middle Middle Low Middle Middle Middle Low Low Middle Middle
6 Middle High Middle Low Middle Middle Middle Low Middle Middle Middle Middle High

Mode of Delivery

e-course

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

NONE

Course Contents

The purpose, reason and the results of the organization of political society of societies, will be analyzed. In this context, with starting from Plato to Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Aquinli Thomas, Ibn-i Rusd, Dante, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Moore and John Locke, etc. views and ideas of these thinkers will be discussed.

Weekly Schedule

1) Course objectives and content can be shared with students, students' expectations of what the course will be discussed.
2) Ancient Greek and social, political, economic and cultural structures of city-states (Police state) will be described.
3) Intellectual life and natural philosophers will be explained in the city state.
4) Sophists, Socrates, Kyrene and Kyniks will be explained
5) Platon will be discussed.
6) Aristotle will be discussed.
7) Social, political, economical and cultural structure of the Roman Empire and Seneca, Cicero will be explained.
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Patristic thought: Augustine, Gelasius, and Double Swords Theory will be explained.
10) Clash of the King- Pope, Thomas will be explained.
11) Marsilius will be explained.
12) Reformation: Luther, Münzer, Calvin will be explained.
13) Three commentator of Absolutism : Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes will be described.
14) Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau will be explained.
15) Hume, Burke, Hegel and Marx will be explained.
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Alaaddin Şenel, Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi. Ankara. Bilim Sanat Yayınları. 2010.
2- Brian Redhead, Siyasi Düşüncenin Temelleri. Editör. Hikmet Özdemir, İstanbul. Alfa Yayınları. 2001.
3- Ayferi Göze, Siyasal Düşünceler ve Yönetimler. İstanbul. Beta Basım Yayım. 2011.
4- Projeksiyon, Ders Notları

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Group Study
5) Problem Solving


Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade

20%

Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade

80%

Total

100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required