Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

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
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) It summarizes the basic principles of political thoughts that direct social life.
2) Recognizes the historical development of political ideas.
3) It categorizes the political thoughts formed in the process of social development.
4) Compares basic concepts related to the history of political ideas such as politics and political power.
5) Recognizes the thinkers and their works who have contributed to the development of political thought since ancient Greece.
6) It defines the social, political and cultural structure in ancient Greece and Rome.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Program Competencies

Learning Outcomes

No relation

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

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

Work Placement(s)

Not Required

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