COURSE UNIT TITLE

: METAPHYSICS POSSIBILITIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FEL 7029 METAPHYSICS POSSIBILITIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

PHILOSOPHY, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR REŞAT LEVENT AYSEVER

Offered to

PHILOSOPHY, NON-THESIS (Evening)

Course Objective

The course objective is to investigate the concepts that constitute metaphysics, such as experience , being-nothingness , necessity-contingency , finite-infinite , subject-object , spirit-matter , particular-universal , freedom , mediate-immediate , intuition , etc. The roots of these concepts are traced back in the works of major philosophers. The characteristics essential to metaphysical doctrines such as idealism, materialism, etc. are discussed.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   By the end of this course students will be able to learn how and under which conditions the first philosophy was introduced and how philosophy became a subject of systematical investigation.
2   Know on which concepts philosophical theories differentiates from each other and convey this knowledge to others.
3   Know and lead discussion about how the arguments on the subjects such as being-becoming , nothingness, creation, subject-object, necessity-freedom, etc.
4   Comprehend problems of philosophia perennis.
5   Discuss about the reality of a fact or experience from different perspectives and reach new findings in favour of thinking.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The origin of metaphysics
2 Idealist and materyalist philosophy. Questions of being and becoming.
3 Question of thinking and method.
4 The concept of nothingness and Augustin
5 Rationalism of Descartes. The concepts of subject and object
6 Empiricism, Locke and Hume
7 Empiricism, Locke and Hume
8 Mid-term exam
9 Kant and metaphysics as a science
10 Hegel and the concept of experience
11 Marx, dialectic and historical materialism
12 Nietzsche and destruction of supersensible world.
13 Husserl and pure psychology
14 Heidegger and the question of meaning of being

Recomended or Required Reading

Aristotle (2002) Metaphysics, tr. by Joe Sachs, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Green Lion Press.
Aristoteles (1996), Kategoriler, çev. Saffet Babür, Ankara: Imge Kitabevi.
Metinlerle Ortaçağda Felsefe, derleyenler ve çevirmenler: Betül Çotuksöken & Saffet Babür, 1993, Istanbul: Kabancı Yayınevi.
Copleston, Frederick ( 1998) Felsefe Tarihi, Cilt I, Yunan ve Roman Felsefesi , Bölüm 1 b, Platon. Çev. Aziz Yardımlı, Idea Yayınevi.
Copleston, Frederick (2011) A History of Philosophy, Vol. 2, Medieval Philosophy, London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Deleuze, Gilles (1988) Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, translation and preface by Robert Hurley, City Lights Books, San Francisco.
Descartes, René (1998) Anlığın Yönetimi Için Kurallar & Ilk Felsefe Üzerine Meditasyonlar, çev. Aziz Yardımlı, Istanbul: Idea Yayınevi.
Feuerbach, Ludwig (2012) Klasik, Ibrani ve Hıristiyan Antikçağ Kaynaklarına Göre Tanrıların Doğuşu, çev. Oğuz Özügül, Istanbul: Say.

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 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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 5 65
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 124

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.15555555
LO.2455555
LO.35555555
LO.455554555
LO.544555455

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