COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AVICENNA'S METAPHYSICS AND ITS EFFECTS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6219 AVICENNA'S METAPHYSICS AND ITS EFFECTS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET AYDIN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

The aims of this course are: to help students in gaining theoretical knowledge and deep understanding of Avicenna's metaphysics with its effects both on Islamic and Western world that may support them to understand his metaphysics. Therefore, students will have comprehensive perspective that a) metaphysics is an essence that everything is linked to it, b) its roots can be brought back to the desire of knowledge in human being., c) therefore where is the place of human being in the Whole and how their relation to it must be. In this course, some subjects in Avicenna's metaphysics will be covered such as, the existing things, different type of meanings of them, existence as being existed, the principles of other sciences apart from metaphysics, and first principles of existing world; with all these, the existence of God, his adjectives as knower, creator and human's freedom, will be examined in detail. In this course, it is aimed to know all these metaphysical subjects that outlined in here and to gain ability analyze them respectively.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Student, will learn the meaning of Avicenna's metaphysics.
2   Student, will learn that Avicenna's metaphysics is a science that researching the final reality over the physics.
3   They will be able to understand the term "existence" and the type of existences.
4   They will learn the relation between material-form; existence-contents; substances-superficiality; potentiality-actuality.
5   They will have theoretical knowledge of discussions about the principles of existence and changing.
6   They will be evaluate the proofs that brought for existence of god, in terms of logic and philosophical aspects.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The sources of Avicenna's metaphysics.
2 Avicenna's metaphysics and its subjects: a) first philosophy, "ma ba'd et-Tabia" or holy science (theology); b) the place of metaphysics in theoretical sciences; c) final goal of metaphysics.
3 Discovering the existence as existing. a)the meanings that given to the terms of existence; b) existing or being in reality; c) beings as existence or general existing.
4 The relation between existence and essences. a) existing added to the essences. b) being existed and essence (individuality) in created and finite existence. c) quality and beings in Necessary Existence (God).
5 The structure of created or finite existing, or the difference between essence and properties. a) existing and individual subject; b)properties and superficial beings; c) the causality between essence and properties.
6 Being and changing. a) The relation between material and form; b) the relation between potentiality and actuality; c)the individuality of material essences.
7 Going back from created beings to the non-created Necessary Existence. a) knowing the god; b) proving his existence.
8 Mid-term Exam
9 The existence of God and his adjectives: Power, Will, Knowing.
10 Passing from the God to created existing. a) the theory of Sudur and creating the beings; c)the infiniteness of the universe; c) the nature of time.
11 The knowledge of Necessary existence: a)his knowledge as universal (not details), b) the freedom of human beings.
12 Existence, Oneness, Truth: a) the types of truths (logical, ontological, moral; b) beings are good, and the nature of good; c) the nature of badness and types (physical, moral, ontological); d) the nature of beauty and subjective and objective elements in beauty.
13 The effects of Avicenna's metaphysics on the Islamic world: Philosophy, Kalam, and Sufism.
14 The effects of Avicenna's metaphysics on the Western world: its effects on Jewish and Christian thinkers.

Recomended or Required Reading

1-Platon; Parmenides, çev., Saffet Babür, Imge Kitabevi, Ankara 1996.
2-Platon, Sofist, çev., Ahmet Cevizci-Derya Önder, Say Yayınları, Istanbul 2012.
3-Diadochos Proklos, Platon'un Parmenides Diyalogunun Yorumu (141e-142a), çev., Oğuz Özügül, Pencere Yayınları, Istanbul 2006.
4-Aristoteles, Metafizik, çev, Ahmet Arslan, Sosyal Yayınları, Istanbul 2012.
5-Plotinus, Dokuzluklar I, çev. Zeki Özcan, Alfa Aktüel Yayınları, Istanbul 2007.
6-Farabi, Es-Siyâsetü'l-Medeniyye veya Mebâdiü'l-Mevcûdât, çev., M. Aydın, M. Rami Ayas, A. Şener, Büyüyenay Yayıncılık, Istanbul 2012.
7-Ibn Sina, Metafizik I, (Kitabu'ş-Şifâ, el-Ilahiyyât), çev., Ekrem Demirli-Ömer Türker, Litera Yayınları, Istanbul 2004.
8-Ibn Sina, Metafizik II, (Kitabu'ş-Şifâ, el-Ilâhiyyât), çev., Ekrem Demirli-Ömer Türker, Litera Yayınları, Istanbul 2005.
9-Ibn Sina, Işaretler ve Tenbihler,(el-Işârât ve't-Tenbihât), çev., Ali Durusoy, Muhittin Macit, Ekrem Demirli, Litera Yayınları,Istanbul 2005..

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, research, question-answer, work, analyse

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

Students' achievements are calculated from the results of mid-term exam, homework assignments, final exam and active participation to the lecture.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mehmetaydin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

on Fridays 3:00-4:00 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 7 91
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 4 4
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Reading 3 7 21
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 185

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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