COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CATEGORIES THEORY IN MASHAI PHILOSOPHY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 5189 CATEGORIES THEORY IN MASHAI PHILOSOPHY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET AYDIN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

In this course, the student is aimed to comprehend the issues that Messhai philosophers developed through the views of both Aristotle and Neo-Platonic philosophers who criticized and interpreted Aristotle. By teaching the meanings of substance, quantity, quality, relativity and relative, time, place, location, possessive, influence and passive programs, it is aimed to comprehend the nature of the theory of categories and its major problems studied by Messhai philosophers in logic and metaphysics.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The meanings of substance, quantity, quality, relativity and relative, time, place, location, possessive, influence and passive categories are learned
2   It is understood that the theory of categories studied by messhai philosophers in logic and metaphysics is based on the nature of things
3   It is learned that the nature of things can exist both in the external world and in the mind

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Relation of Messhai philosophers to Aristotle's Theory of Categories
2 Relation of Messhai Philosophers with Category Theories of Neo-Platonic Philosophers
3 The Meaning of Categories and Their Place in Philosophy
4 Treatment of Categories in Metaphysics and Logic
5 Substance Category
6 Quantity Category
7 Quality Category
8 Mid Term
9 Relatives Category
10 Sometime Category
11 Somewhere Category
12 Possesive Category
13 Impact and Passive Category
14 The Effect and Results of the Mashai Philosophers' Theory of Categories

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Aristoteles, Kategoriler-Önermeler, çev., Furkan Akderin, Say yayınları, Istanbul 2017.
2. Farabi, Kategoriler ve Retorik, çev., ali Tekin, Klasik Yayınları, Istanbul 2019.
3. Ibn Sina, Kategoriler, çev., Muhittin Macit, Litera yayıncılık, Istanbul 2014.
4. Ibn Sina, Metafizik I, çev., Ekrem Demirli-Ömer Türker, Litera yayıncılık, Istanbul 2017.
5. Salih Yalın, Ibn Rüşd Felsefesinde Kategoriler, kimlik Yayınları, Kayseri 2017.
6. J. Owens, Aristotle on Categories, The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 14, No. 1 (Sep., 1960), pp. 73-90.
7.Chrıstos Evangeuou, Arıstotle's Categorıes And Porphyry, E J. Brıll, Leıden, New York, Koln, 1996.
8. Frans A.J. De Haas, Did Plotinus and Porphyry disagree on Aristotle's Categories , Phronesis, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Nov., 2001), pp. 492-526.
9. Stough, Charlotte L., Language and Ontology in Aristotle's Categories, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 10, Number 3, July 1972, pp. 261-272.
10. Anna Zhyrkova, Porphyry s Interpretatıon Of Categorıes The Neoplatonıc Approach To Nomınalısm , eos xcv 2008 ıssn 0012-7825.
11. Mohan Matthen, The Categories and Aristotle's Ontology, Dialogue, Volume 17, Issue 02, June 1978, pp 228 243.
Rıccardo Chıaradonna, The Categorıes And The Status Of The Physıcal World: Plotınus And The Neo-Platonıc Commentators, Greek, Arabıc, And Latın Commentarıes,
12. Phillip de Lacy, The Stoic Categories as Methodological Principles, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 76 (1945),pp. 246-263.
13. Lloyd A. Newton, Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle s Categories, Brill, Leıden- Boston 2008.
14. Stephen Menn, Metaphysics, Dialectic and the Categories, Revue De Métaphysique Et De Morale, 100e Année, No. 3, Sımmel - Le Problème Dutemps Hıstorıque (Juillet-Septembre 1995), Pp. 311-337.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, research,question-answer, work, analysis

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The success of student is being determined by reference to his or her performance of mid term, final exam and course performance

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mehmetaydin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

on Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 pm

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Reading 4 5 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.13354
LO.23354
LO.33354