Information Package / Course Catalogue
Ethics
Course Code: FEL308
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

The objective of this course is to teach the main problems and concepts of Ethics, their historical development and their present state: to dicuss these problems on examples chosen from works of literature or from everyday life.

Course Content

In this course ethical problems related to ethical relations, ethical evaluation, ethical experience, ethical principles, ethical will, ethical freedom, ethical action, and ethical values are studied within the framework of Aristotle's Kant's and Kuçuradi's ethical viewpoints and the possible solutions for these ethical problems are discussed from a philosophical perspective.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Yavuz KILIÇ
Learning Outcomes
1.Can distinguish the difference between Ethics, which is a branch of philosophy that reveals knowledge, and Morals, which are systems of ready-made value judgments
2.Distinguishes the main features of ethical relationship and social relationship, and the difference between correct evaluation and rote evaluation. Can demonstrate these features on examples selected from daily life.
3.Can understand and discuss the main features of ethical evaluation, ethical experience and ethical action.
4.Learns the main characteristics of ethical person values and ethical relationship values.
5.Learns the ethical theories of Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Kuçuradi and contemporary thinkers
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Aristoteles, Nikomakhos’a Etik, (Çev.Saffet Babür), Ankara, Ayraç Yayınevi, 1997
2.Kant, Immanuel. Ahlak Metafiziğinin Temellendirilmesi (Çev. İoanna Kuçuradi), Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, 1982
3.Kuçuradi, İoanna. Etik, Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara, 1999
4.MacIntyre, Alasdair. Ethik’in Kısa Tarihi, (Çev. Hakkı Hünler, Solmaz Z. Hünler), Paradigma, İstanbul, 2001
5.Sandel, Michael. Adalet, Yapılması Gereken Doğru Şey Nedir?, Felix Kitap, 2020
6.Tepe, Harun. Teorik Etik-Etiğin Bilgisel Sorunları, BilgeSu Yayınları, Ankara, 2016
7.Tepe, Harun. Pratik Etik-Etiğin Pratik Sorunları, BilgeSu Yayınları, Ankara, 2016
8.Tepe, Harun. Etiğe Giriş-Teorik Etikten Pratik Etiğe, BilgeSu Yayınları, Ankara, 2024
9.Tepe Kart, Berfin. Erdem Etiği, Aristotelesçi Kökenlerinden Günümüze, Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları, Ankara, 2022
10.Tepe, Kart Berfin. Etikte Öznellik Nesnellik Tartışması, BilgeSu Yayınları, Ankara, 2022
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction
Week 2 - Theoretical
What is Ethics and what is not?
Week 3 - Theoretical
The boundaries of ethics, moral and morality
Week 4 - Theoretical
The knowledge of ethics and life
Week 5 - Theoretical
Contemporary problems and dilemmas from an ethical perspective
Week 6 - Theoretical
The progress of ethics as a branch of philosophy from Aristotle to the present
Week 7 - Theoretical
Ethical knowledge, truth and justification in ethics
Week 8 - Theoretical
The problem of normativity, absoluteness, relativity, universality in ethics
Week 9 - Theoretical
The problem of subjectivity-objectivity in ethics, emotion-rationality conflict
Week 10 - Theoretical
Ethical theories: Aristotelian ethics, Ethics of emotion, Kantian ethics and Utilitarianism
Week 11 - Theoretical
Ethical theories: Metaethics and analytic ethics, sentimentalism, virtue ethics, discourse ethics
Week 12 - Theoretical
Ethical theories: Ethics of Kuçuradi
Week 13 - Theoretical
Against-ethics: A. MacIntyre, H.Jonas, Z. Bauman, P.Kropotkin
Week 14 - Theoretical
Practical ethics or practical problems of ethics
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%20
Final Examination1%60
Assignment1%20
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Reading140342
Midterm Examination120222
Final Examination120222
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)128
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
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OÇ-1
2
5
3
3
4
4
4
4
4
OÇ-2
2
4
5
3
5
3
3
4
4
OÇ-3
4
4
3
4
5
4
4
4
4
OÇ-4
4
5
3
3
3
3
3
5
4
OÇ-5
5
5
4
3
4
4
3
4
4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026