Lesson plan / HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT-II

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 5.0
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 Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course Comprehend theories based on the philosophy of political science, explain key points and evolution of those theories, critics, and their countribution to politicial science
Course Content In this course, Realism, İdealism, Marxist theories, Pluralism, Social Constructivism, Decision Making theories, Geopolitic theories, Game theory, Alternative approaches to IR, Political Concepts Political ideologies and concepts such as Armament, Nationalism, Imperalism, Isolationaism and Globalsiation are visited in addition to scientific terminlogy by defining theory, paradigma, approach, method terms at the beginning.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction
2St. Augustine Thomas Aquinas
3Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Maimonides
4Luther and Calvin
5QUIZ 1 Machiavelli Thomas Hobbes
6Locke Rousseau
7Burke Tocqueville
8Kant Karl Marx
9Mid-term Exam
10John Stuart Mill Nietzsche
11Gramsci Weber
12QUIZ 2 Spinoza Bodin
13Habermas Foucoult Adorno
14Hannah Arendt Simone de Beauvoir

Resources

Assigned Texts: Morgan, Michael L. (ed.), Classics of Moral and Political Theory, Third Edition, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 2001. Recommended Texts: Deutsch, Kenneth L. and Joseph R. Fornieri, An Invitation to Political Thought, Wandsworth, Cengage Learning, 2009. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Al-Farabi, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-mind/#AlFar Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Avicenna, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-mind/#Avi Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Averroes, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-mind/#Ave Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Al-Ghazali, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al-ghazali/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Maimonides, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides-islamic/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weber/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/ Habermas https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/ Foucoult https://www.iep.utm.edu/fouc-pol/ Hannah Arendt https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/ Simone de Beauvoir https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/
John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Philips: (2006), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, Oxford University

Tayyar Arı/Uluslararası ilişkiler Teorileri/ Alfa Yayınevi, John S. Dryzek/ Handbook of Political Theory/Oxford University Press.