COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POLITICS ETHICS RELATIONS IN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 6218 POLITICS ETHICS RELATIONS IN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY 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 knowledge about the sources of Islamic philosopher's views on the relation between ethics and politics; knowledge about psychological and metaphysical essences that ethics and politics stands on; about the goodness of society depending on the goodness of individuals that could only be realized by a relation between theoretical and practical lives; about the relation between religion and politics; about the political structures that are and are not wisdom; about justice and in justices that are moral subjects related to philosophy of politics; and besides all these, they are expected to analyze and make relation to daily life and discover its values.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Student, will learn that ethics and politics are the practical and problematic are of Islamic philosophy.
2   Student, will know Islamic philosophers' views ethics and politics with the respect of their relation.
3   They will be able to understand that the goodness for individuals are unthinkable without other's goodness.
4   They will see that ethics is in the research area of political sciences because of politics ask people to become a good person and obey the laws.
5   They will be able to evaluate the discussions about psychological and metaphysical essences of ethics and politics.
6   They will understand how ordering the laws and obeying them create the justice.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The place of ethics and politics in Islamic philosophy: a) ordering the sciences; b) the works of some Islamic philosophers on ethics and politics.
2 Outside and inside sources of ethics and politics: religious texts; b) philosophical texts: Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus.
3 Psychological essences of ethics and politics: a) "Nafs" being a core as a form of body. b)the relation of Nafs and Body; c) the powers and abilities of the human nafs.
4 The relation of ethics and politics with the human nature: human beings as a social and political existence naturally.
5 The metaphysical essences of ethics and politics: a) true idealisation of happiness; b) the methods and arguments being used in ethics and politics.
6 Knowledge and virtue relation: theoretical and practical life; b) the relation of wisdom and virtue.
7 The places of desires and emotions in moral (ethical) actions: a) emotion and reason; b) the relation of emotions with moral wisdoms; c) the relation of emotions with ethical and political decisions.
8 The virtue of friendship: a) the roots of friendship and qualities the it relies on: advantage, pleasure, virtue; b) the relation between friendship and politics.
9 Relation between politics and religion: a)philosopher or prophet; b) prophet-hood and laws; c) immortality and happiness.
10 The best political system and its aims: a) city of virtue; b) the governor of the city of virtue; c) the citizens of the city of virtue.
11 Democracy and corrupted political structures: chaos and lack of virtue in political societies.
12 Justices and lack of justice: a) local and general justice; b) the relation between friendship and justice.
13 Education of politics and morality.
14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

1-Platon; Devlet, çev., Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, M. Ali Cimcoz, Istanbul 2006.
2-Platon, Yasalar, çev., Candan Şentuna, Saffet Babür, Kabalcı Yayınları, Istanbul 2007.
2. Aristoteles, Politika, çev, Ersin Uysal, Dergah Yayınları, Istanbul 2010.
3. Plotinus, Enneadlar, çev. Zeki Özcan, Bursa 1996.
4. Farabi, Ilimlerin Sayımı, (Ihsâu'l-Ulûm), çev., Ahmet Arslan, Divan,2011.
5. Farabi, Ideal Devlet (El-Medînetü'l-Fâzıla), çev., Ahmet Arslan, Divan Yay., 2011.
6.Farabi, Mutluluğun Kazanılması (Tahsîlu's-Sa'ade), çev., Ahmet Arslan, Divan Kitap., 2012.
7.Farabi, Es-Siyâsetü'l-Medeniyye veya Mebâdiü'l-Mevcûdât, çev., M. Aydın, M. Rami Ayas, A. Şener, Büyüyenay Yayıncılık, Istanbul 2012.
8.Farabi, Siyaset Felsefesine Dair Görüşler (Fusûlu'l-Medenî), çev., Hanifi Özcan, Farabî'nin Iki Eseri içinde, M.Ü. Ilahiyat Fak. Vakfı, Istanbul 2005.
9.Farabi, Mutluluk Yoluna Yöneltme (Tenbîh Ala Sebîli's-Sa'ade), çev., Hanifi Özcan, Farabi'nin Iki Eseri içinde, M.Ü. Ilahiyat Fak. Vakfı, Istanbul 2005.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, research, questioning, assignments.

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 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
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 7 3 21
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 167

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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