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Course Unit Title Course Unit Code Type of Course Unit Level of Course Unit Year of Study Semester ECTS Credits
Political Ontology - II FEL116 Elective Master's degree 1 Spring 7

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Sevinç TÜRKMEN AKSU

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) To know the basic concepts of research.
2) To examine the connection between politics and ontology
3) To make intertextual comparison
4) To prepare critical text in terms of political ontology

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

  Program Competencies
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Learning Outcomes
1 No relation No relation No relation Middle No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation
2 No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation
3 No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation
4 No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation No relation

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

political philosophy

Course Contents

Graduate students see that philosophers’ political philosophies are based on their philosophy of existence, examining the coherence and contradictions between the two areas, developing a critical approach to the philosopher's thought through this review, conducting such an investigation by comparing philosophers, and preparing philosophical texts in the field of political ontology based on all this examination.

Weekly Schedule

1) Spinoza’s philosophy of existence (Ethica- Section 1)
2) Spinoza’s philosophy of existence (Ethica- Section 2-3)
3) Spinoza’s philosophy of existence (Ethica- Section 4-5)
4) Spinoza's theology
5) Spinoza’s political philosophy
6) Spinoza's political ontology
7) Critique of Spinoza’s political ontology
8) exam
9) Marx’s philosophy of existence (Manuscripts of 1844)
10) Marx’s philosophy of existence (The German Ideology)
11) Marx's political philosophy
12) Marx's political ontology
13) Critique of Marx’s political ontology
14) Comparison of Spinoza and Marx's Political Ontologies
15) Results and criticism
16) exam

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Spinoza, Ethica
2- Spinoza, Politik İnceleme
3- Spinoza, Teolojik Politik İnceleme
4- Marx, Alman İdeolojisi
5- Marx, 1844 El Yazmaları

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion


Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade

30%

Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade

70%

Total

100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required