COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MADIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ILS 3280 MADIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Theology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET AYDIN

Offered to

Theology
Theology (Evening)

Course Objective

To provide understanding for students about sources of Medieval Jewish philosophy its raisining, sources, development, stages and philosophical schools, medieval jewish philosophers and their opinions and effects on modern philosophies. To provide an understanding about effects of Jewish Philosophy on Islamic thought and knowledge about this effects and the role philosphy for understanding of Jewish philosophy

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Student will achieve a degree of evaluation of Jewish thought's contemporary value
2   Student will gain knowledge about Jewish philosophers' understandings of philosophy, science and religion and their methods on these areas
3   Student will recognize that Problems of Jewish philosophy should evaluate together with thoughts of Islamic philosophers
4   Student will learn that Medieval philosophy is the source of modern philosophical arguments and modern philosophy uses its concepts and problems
5   Student will gain the practical profit of constituting today a relation between Islamic philosophy and Jewish philosophy like occured past

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Medieval Jewish Philosophy, its definition, problems and borders
2 Relation of Medieval Jewish philosophy with Helenistical era and ancient age philosophy. Platonism, Neo-platonism, Aristotelianism.
3 Relation of Jewish medieval philosophy with islamic philosphy and islamic thought. the effect of Mutazila and philosophers
4 Saadia Gaon Al-Feyyûmî and his philosophy
5 Ibn Gabirol and his philosophy
6 Bahya Ibn Pakuda and his philosophy
7 Abraham Ibn Ezra and his philosophy
8 Midtern exam
9 Judah Halevî and his philosophy
10 Abraham Ibn Daud and his philosophy
11 Ibn Meymun (Maimonides) and his philosophy
12 Metaphysics, ethics and politics in the thought of Maimonides
13 Gersonides (Levi Ben Gershom) and his philosophy
14 Sufism and Judaism

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Seyyid Hüseyin Nasr-Oliver Leaman (ed.), Islam Felsefesi Tarihi, çev., Şamil Öçal ve Hasan Tüncay Imamoğlu, Açılımkitap, c.II, Istanbul 2007.
2. H.Austryn Wolfson, Kelam Felsefeleri, çev., Kasım Turhan, Kitabevi, Istanbul 2001.
3. Dan Cohn Sherbok, Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Introduction, Curzon Press, Richmond Surrey, Great Britain 1996.
4. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman (ed.), History of Jewish Philosophy, Routledge, New York 1997.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + BUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The students will be assessed based on success in their mid-term and final exams along with their performance during the classes throughout the semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mehmetaydin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 56

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51