COURSE UNIT TITLE

: VAROLUşçU FILOZOFLAR

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 7077 VAROLUşçU FILOZOFLAR ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

PHILOSOPHY, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR METIN BAL

Offered to

PHILOSOPHY, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Course Objective

The course objectives is to raise and lead arguments on the philosophers and writers that are the sources and representers of existentialist philosophy, such as Augustin, Aquinas, Pascal, Montaigne, Spinoza, Fichte, Dostoyevsky, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, Sartre, Kafka and Camus. The concepts essential to existentialist philosophy will be studied by the help of masterpieces of the major existentialist thinkers.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   By the end of this course students will be able to comprehend the existentialist philosophy that has an important place in the twentieth century philosophy.
2   know how individual existence of human is deepened by existentialist philosophy.
3   hold discussions on basic works of philosophers that are founders and representers of existentialism.
4   understand and convey to others the solutions about the question of human existence.
5   investigate how existentialism manifolds the meaning of life by literary works and convey to others these new meanings in a way that strengthen the vital forces of humanity.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Origin of the concept of existence
2 Kierkegaard s philosophy of existence
3 The contribution of Nietzsche s conception of life to the philosophy of existence.
4 Heidegger s interpretation of Nietzsche
5 Heidegger s interpretation of Nietzsche
6 Heidegger s interpretation of Nietzsche
7 Being authentic and being inauthentic
8 Mid-term exam
9 Sartre s defence of existentialism
10 Sartre s defence of existentialism
11 Difference between Heidegger s and Sartre s existentialism.
12 Argument between Sartre and Camus
13 Philosophical interpretation of the novel Nausea
14 Philosophical interpretation of the novel Plague
15 General assessment
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Brod, Max (2000) Kafka da Inanç ve Umutsuzluk, çev. Kamuran Şipal, Istanbul: Cem Yayınevi.
Erhat, Azra (2002) Mitoloji Sözlüğü, Istanbul: Remzi Kitabevi
Heckmann, Wolfhart und Lotter, Konrad (2004) Lexikon der Ästhetik, München: Verlag C.H.Beck.
Heidegger, M., (1996). Wegmarken, Gesamtausgabe, I.Abteilung: Veröffentlichte Schriften 1910-1976, Band 9, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.
Heidegger, Martin (2004) Varlık ve Zaman, Sein und Zeit, çev. Aziz Yardımlı, Istanbul: Idea Yayınevi.
Heidegger, Martin (1996) Nedir Bu Felsefe , Çev: Ali Irgat, Istanbul: AFA Yayınları.
Heidegger, Martin (1991), Nietzsche, Volume I: The Will to Power as Art, Volume II: The Eternal Recurrence of the Same, Volume III: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics, Ing. Çev. David Farrell Krell, Volume IV: Nihilism, Ing. Çev: Frank A. Capuzzi, San Francisco: Harper.
Jameson, Fredric (1991) Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Durham: Duke University Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

See "Assessment Methods" and "ECTS Table"

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

LO 1-3 will be evaluated by his/her presentation
LO 4-5 will be evaluated by the assignment of the student and by the questions that will be asked in midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. %70 attendance is required.
2. The participation in midterm and final exams will be considered in grading.
3. The participation in presentation activity will be considered in grading.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Metin Bal
0232 301 94 11
metin.bal@deu.edu.tr
http://www.metinbal.net

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 6 3 18
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 7 91
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
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.13PO.14PO.15
LO.1555
LO.2
LO.355
LO.454
LO.544

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