POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- Course
- INRE546 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- Department
- International Relations - English - Master
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 8
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
This Course is designed to introduce students of IR the political thought by following the footsteps of the outstanding thinkers from Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas to Marx, Gramsci, Althusser, and Badiou through an analysis of the political thought of selected scholars along with their contributions to political philosophy. In examining the ideas of those theorists the method to be adopted is both textual and contextual, attempting to give due regard to the thoughts expressed by the authors and the social environments in which they have been expressed. These philosophers will therefore be evaluated and analyzed in their own historical context.
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Course outcomes
- 01 Analyze different aspects of political theory
- 02 Assess the difference between right and left ideologies
- 03 Generalize patterns of political thought from Plato to Badiou
- 04 Matching philosophers of similar orientations
- 05 Explain theoretical findings of philosophers
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | An Introduction to the course; |
| Week 2 | Ancient Greek Political Philosopy and Plato |
| Week 3 | Beginning of Student Presentations- Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas |
| Week 4 | Machiavelli, Hobbes |
| Week 5 | Locke, Rousseau |
| Week 6 | Hume, James Madison |
| Week 7 | Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham |
| Week 8 | Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant |
| Week 9 | Marx and Engels, Robert Nozick |
| Week 10 | Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault |
| Week 11 | Habermas, Nussbaum, Ideologies ( Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism) |
| Week 12 | - |
| Week 13 | - |
| Week 14 | - |
| Week 15 | - |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Geraint Williams, Political Theory in Retrospect, Edward Elgar Publishing,, 1991
- 02 Steven M. Cahn, Political Philosophy: the Essential Texts. Oxford University Press, 2005
Learning Outcomes
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Program Outcomes
- P01 PO1 Been able to demonstrate their learned skills and knowledge regarding business related issues and research which they can use continuously in their personal and business life.
- P02 PO2 Obtained theoretical and practical information from the courses that allowed students to learn and work independently.
- P03 PO3 Been ensured that they learnt by increasing their level of knowledge and skills which are necessary in their field.
- P04 PO4 Increased their creativity and analytical thinking and developed crucial skills which are needed to be applied both in their studies, research, and future careers.
- P05 PO5 Adopted and implemented ethical principles and moral values regarding the use of technology in their studies and professional lives by creating an awareness on using the technological imperatives.
- P06 PO6 Designed their theoretical and practical knowledge in a way that they could make use of in a collaborative usage and various working contexts.
- P07 PO7 Enrolled in intercultural or international projects which could provide opportunities to develop their skills and implement them successfully in their studies, research and future careers.
- P08 PO8 Improved their communication skills successfully and been able to implement them in various international education, research and work context by increasing their social capital.
- P09 PO9 Been able to implement their learnt knowledge and research skills into practice through scenarios, case studies, empirical articles and real-life observations.
- P10 PO10 Created awareness and developed ethical undertaking by incorporating the learnt theories with environmental approaches to be further implemented into their research and careers.
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