Information Package / Course Catalogue
The Question of Freedom
Course Code: FEL334
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

To try to understand how the problem of freedom has been handled by various philosophers throughout the history of philosophy and to think to bring new definitions to the concept of freedom, to ask new questions, to reveal the expansions of the problem of freedom in philosophical disciplines.

Course Content

Comparison of how the concept of freedom is understood by various philosophers.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Has awareness why the liberty is a problem.
2.Has an explanation about historical roots of liberty as a concept.
3.Has an understanding what is the relation between ethics and liberty.
4.Has an criticism between the widely means of liberty everything goes and the philosophical mean
5.Locate actual problems in the historical perspective considering philosophers approach to their problems
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Aristoteles, Nikomakhos’a Etik, (Çev. Saffet Babür), Dost Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara
2.Platon, Devlet, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul
3.Kant, I., Ahlak Metafiziğinin Temellendirilmesi, (Çev. İoanna Kuıçuradi), Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu, Ankara
4.Pratik Aklın Eleştirisi, (Çev. İoanna Kuçuradi), Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu, Ankara
5.Seçilmiş Yazılar, (Ed. ve Çev. Nejat Bozkurt),Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul
6.Kuçuradi, I., Uludağ Konuşmaları, Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu, Ankara
7.Spinoza, B., Etika, (Çev.Hilmi Ziya Ülken), Dost Kitabevi, Ankara
8.Sartre, J.P., Varoluşçuluk Bir Hümanizma mıdır?, (Çev. Asım Bezirci), Say Yayınları
9.Tepe, H. Yaşamak Bir Ağaç Gibi Tek ve Hür ve Bir Orman Gibi Kardeşçesine, Çağın Olayları Arasında İoanna Kuçuradi, Armağan Kitabı içinde, Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu, Ankara
10.Berlin, I. İki Özgürlük Kavramı, Toplum Felsefesi Dergisi, Aydınlanma sayısı içinde
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction
Week 2 - Theoretical
What is Freedom?
Week 3 - Theoretical
Freedom and its concepts
Week 4 - Theoretical
Two concepts of freedom
Week 5 - Theoretical
Platon's ideas on freedom
Week 6 - Theoretical
Aristotle’s ideas on freedom
Week 7 - Theoretical
Epikouros ve Stoa's ideas on freedom
Week 8 - Theoretical
Spinoza's ideas on freedom
Week 9 - Theoretical
D. Hume’s ideas on freedom
Week 10 - Theoretical
Kant's ideas on freedom
Week 11 - Theoretical
Schopenhauer’s ideas on freedom
Week 12 - Theoretical
Nietzsche’s ideas on freedom
Week 13 - Theoretical
Sartre’s ideas on freedom
Week 14 - Theoretical
J.S.Mill's ideas on rights and freedom
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Attending Lectures1%10
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140228
Reading140114
Midterm Examination115217
Final Examination118220
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)79
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026