COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IDA 3001 MORAL PHILOSOPHY COMPULSORY 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Primary Religious Culture and Ethics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MEHMET TÜRKERI

Offered to

Primary Religious Culture and Ethics Teacher Education

Course Objective

To make students able to grasp and analyse all literature in moral philosophy. With this, students will understand the definition, the nature and extends of ethics; the relation between ethics and morality; the differences of ethics; the basic theories of ethics in history and differences of them; the meanings of some technical terms like happiness, perfection, good, virtue, value and classification of them; relations between them; the relation of happiness to money, properties, titles; and how we can add ethical values into an event, an act; and what turns a behaviour, a judgement, a decision, a relationship into ethical things.
Students will learn the areas and problems in applied ethics and with some examples taken from human-environment relation, human-work/job relation, human-poverty relation; and will learn how a person produce ethical values about them.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will obtain general knowledge about morality, ethics, happiness, good, virtue, value and other moral subjects.
2   They will understand the relation between happiness and money-fame-desires-properties.
3   The students will comprehend what turns behaviour, a judgement, a decision, a relationship into ethical things and will be able to examine an event and behaviour in ethical way.
4   The students will be able to produce ethical values by taking examples of human-environment relation, human-work relation, and human-poverty relation.
5   The students will understand the importance of being a good people, how to become one.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Ethics. Morality and its relation with practical life. 'Human-moral' relation
2 The differences of Ethics
3 The basic approaches in history of Ethics.
4 The basic approaches in history of Ethics.
5 Value.
6 Free will. Human-environment relation.
7 Happiness and perfection. Human-poverty relation
8 Mid-Term exam
9 Virtue Human-global issues
10 Refinements of character.
11 Goodness. Human-money/property/titles relation
12 Morality-authority relation. Morality-natural law relation
13 Individual, Family and Society. Human-work/environment/job relation
14 Self restrainment virtue relation. Friendship
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Required Textbooks:
1. Türkeri, Mehmet, Etik Bilinç, Ankara: Lotus yay., 2011.
2. Türkeri, Mehmet,( Derleyen), Etik Kuramları, Ankara: Lotus yay., 2008.
3. Türkeri, Mehmet, Elmalılı'nın Ahlak Felsefesi, Izmir: DEÜ Ilahiyat Fak. Vakfı yay., 2006.
4. Türkeri, Mehmet, Hayatın Anlamı ve Ölüm-süzlük, Ankara: Lotus yay., 2012.
5. Aristoteles, Nikomakhosa Etik, Ankara: Ayraç Yay., 1997.
Supplemantary Texts:
1. Özcan, Hanifi, Farabi'nin Iki Eseri, (Fusulü'l Medeni, Tenbih Ala Sebili's-Saade), Istanbul: M.Ü. Ilahiyat Fak. Vakfı yay., 2005.
2. Farabi, Mutluluğun Kazanılması, çev. Ahmet Arslan, Ankara: Vadi yay.,1999.
3. Ibni Miskeveyh, Tehzibu'l-Ahlak,
4. Kınalızade Ali, Ahlak-i Alai,
5. Pazarlı, Osman, Islamda Ahlak, Istanbul: Remzi Yay., 1980.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Questionnaire, Analyse, Lecture, case study.

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)

mehmet.turkeri@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 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 92

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1345
LO.2345
LO.3345
LO.4345
LO.5345