Information Package / Course Catalogue
Ontology
Course Code: FEL213
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

To show the ways in which the problem of existence has been discussed in the history of philosophy and why ontology is a fundamental discipline in philosophy.

Course Content

Within the framework of concepts such as “Arkhe”, “ousia”, “God”, “essence”, “essence”, “geist”, “dasein”, “existence”, the approaches of important philosophers in the entire history of philosophy to the problem of existence are examined.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Erdal İSBİR
Learning Outcomes
1.Knows the importance of the problem of being for philosophy
2.Learns how philosophers' views of existence determine their other thoughts
3.Be able to trace the transformations of the problem of being in the history of philosophy
4.Understands the changes of philosophical concepts in the context of the problem of being
5.To be able to think critically on issues such as being, being, existence, and to be able to comment on these issues
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Kranz, Walter (1984) Antik Felsefe. çev. Suad Y. Baydur, İstanbu: Sosyal Yayınları.
2.Heidegger, Martin (1958) The Question of Being, translated and with an introduction by William Kluback and, Jean T.Wilde, NCUP, Inc.
3.Platon (1991) Sofist, çev. Ömer Naci Soykan, İstanbul: Ara Yayıncılık.
4.Aristoteles,(1998) Nikomakhos’a Etik, çev. Saffet Babür, Ankara: Ayraç Yayınevi, Klasik Metinler.
5.Aristotle, The Metaphysics I-II, (Translation by Hugh Tredennick), William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1926(?) (Türkçesi: Metafizik (Çev. Ahmet Arslan), Ege Üni.Yayınları, İzmir.
6.Bunge, Mario, Ontology I, D.Reidel Publishing Compamy, Dordrecht-Boston, 1977
7.Cevizci, Ahmet (Der. ve Çev.), Metafiziğe Giriş, Paradigma, İstanbul, 2001
8.Heidegger, Martin, Being and Time –Introduction, Part One, Division II, IV, V- (Translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson), Blackwel, Oxford and Cambridge, 1997
9.Jacquette, Dale, Ontology, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2002
10.Plotinus, The Essential Plotinus, (Tranlated by Emler O’Brien), A Mentor Boks, New York, 1964
11.Sartre, J.P., Being and Nothingness, -Parts of Two and Three- (Translated by Hazel E. Barnes), Routledge, London and New York, 1989
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The origin and problems of ontology
Week 1 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 2 - Theoretical
The concept of Arkhe in Presocratic Philosophers and its place in ontology
Week 2 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 3 - Theoretical
Plato's theory of ideas and its ontological importance
Week 3 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 4 - Theoretical
Aristotle's concept of Ouisa and the ontological significance of the Doctrine of Causes
Week 4 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 5 - Theoretical
The relationship between theology and ontology in the Middle Ages
Week 5 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 6 - Theoretical
The discussion on substance in 17th century and its place in ontology
Week 6 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 7 - Theoretical
18th century dualism and the ontological significance of the problems of freedom
Week 7 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 8 - Theoretical
Hegel and Ontology
Week 8 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 9 - Theoretical
Hegel and Ontology
Week 9 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 10 - Theoretical
Heidegger's phenomenological ontology
Week 10 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 11 - Theoretical
Heidegger's phenomenological ontology
Week 11 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 12 - Theoretical
The place of Sartre's existentialism in ontology
Week 12 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 13 - Theoretical
The place of Sartre's existentialism in ontology
Week 13 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Week 14 - Theoretical
Current problems of Ontology
Week 14 - Preparation Work
Book, Internet and Library Browsing
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Reading140342
Individual Work2036
Midterm Examination110212
Final Examination120222
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)124
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-11
OÇ-1
2
5
4
1
OÇ-2
1
4
4
1
OÇ-3
2
4
4
1
OÇ-4
2
4
3
1
OÇ-5
2
3
3
1
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