COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PRINCIPLES AND PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC ETHICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ILA 4409 PRINCIPLES AND PHILOSOPHY OF ISLAMIC ETHICS COMPULSORY 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Theology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR MEHMET TÜRKERI

Offered to

Theology
Theology

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; he 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 appiness 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   They will learn the definition, scopes and nature of Ethics.
2   They will learn what happines is, and how to get it.
3   They will understand the relation between happiness and money-fame-desires-properties.
4   They will internalize the principles and criterias of ethics for a judge-ment, a relation, a decision, an evaluation
5   From the examples of human-environment, human-work, human-poverty relation, they will learn how people can produce ethical values in these areas and they grasp the importance of a good people and 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 The sources of Islamic ethics
2 Ethics-Morality; the differences of Ethics
3 The basic theories of Ethics in history
4 Free will
5 Happiness and perfection
6 Virtue
7 Refinements of character
8 Mid-term Exam
9 Goodness
10 Value
11 Morality-Religion relation
12 Individual, family and society
13 Environmental ethics
14 Some areas in applied ethics

Recomended or Required Reading

Turkeri, Mehmet, M.H.Yazır Elmalılı'nın Ahlak Felsefesi, Izmir 2006;
Turkeri, Mehmet, Etik Bilinc, Lotus, 2011;
Turkeri, Mehmet, Etik Kuramları, Lotus 2008;
Pazarlı, Osman, Islamda Ahlak, Remzi Yayınevi.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture

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

To be announced

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
Web Search and Library Research 2 4 8
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

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.11422
LO.21513
LO.32412
LO.42522
LO.51411