Lesson plan / HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT-I

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 6.0
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Distance Learning
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course 1. To introduce students to the origins of our present ideas about politics, 2. To familiarize students with both political concepts and political thinkers. 3. To help students gain an insight on different assumptions and ideas concerning the nature of politics.
Course Content The course will begin with the ancient Greek thinkers and continue with the medieval political thought. By preserving the chronological approach, political thinkers from the 16th century to the present time will be analysed.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction (LEARNING OUTCOME-LO 1)
2Pre-Socratic Political Thought in Greece (LO 1)
3Socrates ACTIVITY_1-ASSIGNMENT (LO 2-3-4)
4Plato (LO 2-3-4-5)
5Aristotle (LO 2-3-4-5)
6Cicero-Roman Thought, Saint Augustine, Thomas Aquinas QUIZ (LO 2-3-4-5)
7Marsilius de Padua, Niccolo Machiavelli (LO 2-3-4-5)
8Reformation, Thomas Hobbes (LO 2-3-4-5)
9MID-TERM EXAM (LO 1-2-3-4-5)
10John Locke (LO 2-3-4-5)
11Jean Jacques Rousseau
12Modern State, Enlightenment ACTIVITY_2-ASSIGNMENT (LO 2-3-4-5)
13Montesquieu, American Enlightenment (LO 2-3-4-5)
14Edmund Burke, David Hume ACTIVITY_3-ASSIGNMENT (LO 2-3-4-5)

Resources

Required (Available at Amazon.com):


J. S. MClelland, A History of Western Political Thought, London and New York: Routledge, 1996.


https://plato.stanford.edu/


https://iep.utm.edu/


Recommended (Available at Amazon.com):


1- Janet Coleman, 2004. Political Thought: From Ancient Greece to Early Christianity, London: Blackwell.


2- Christopher Rowe and Malcolm Schofield, 2000. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


3- G.W.Sheldon, 2003. The History of Political Theory: Ancient Greece to Modern America, New York: Peter Lang Publishing.


4- John H. Hallowell and Jene M. Porter, 1997. Political Philosophy: The Search For Humanity and Order, Ontario: Prentice Hall.


5- Donald G. Tannenbaum and David Schultz, 1998. Inventors of Ideas: An Introduction to Western Political Philosopy, New York: St. Martin’s Press.


6- Morgan, Michael L. (ed.), Classics of Moral and Political Theory, Third Edition, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 2001.


7- Deutsch, Kenneth L. and Joseph R. Fornieri, An Invitation to Political Thought, Wandsworth, Cengage Learning, 2009.