Information Package / Course Catalogue - Adnan Menderes University

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Person Responsible for Information Package

Lec. Çağdaş GÖRÜCÜ

Lec. Murat ARTUÇ

Lec. Süleyman DAL

Res. Assist. Ceren ŞAKAR

Res. Assist. Levent ODABAŞI

History of Political Theories I

Course Code	: SBK301
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

History of Political Theories courses (I & II) aim to explain theoretically the emergence and functioning of the basic institutions of politics such as the state, constitution, individual, individual-state interaction and to provide the reader with basic knowledge. It is aimed to provide the student with the opportunity to explain the social, economic and philosophical thoughts and transformations that lie behind the basic political science topics.

Course Content

This course examines the names and ideas that are the sources of Western thought. The course examines Western political thought, the views of thinkers such as Ancient Greek, Roman, and Middle Ages Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Cicero, St. Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas. Political thoughts are evaluated together with socio-economic and political structures.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Lec. Halil MUTİOĞLU

Learning Outcomes

1.	To be able to comprehend the importance and the effect of other periods of ancient Greek thought.
2.	To be able to comprehend the importance of the history of Roman thought.
3.	To be able to develop a critical approach on the period of the Middle Ages.
4.	To be able to comprehend the changes of Political Philosophy of justice, the fundamental issues of power.
5.	Gaining the ability to do analysis.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Şenel, Alaaddin. (2010). Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, İstanbul: Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları.
2.	Tunçay, Mete (der.). (2002). Batı’da Siyasal Düşünceler Tarihi, İstanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları.
3.	Coleman, J. (2000). A history of political thought. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Community and Thought in Primitive

Week 2 - Theoretical

Transition primitive to civilized society and civilization spread of community

Week 3 - Theoretical

Social Developments in the pre-Greek Civilizations, Religious and Political Thought: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia and Crete Civilizations

Week 4 - Theoretical

Advances in Social and Political Thought in the Greek contemporaries Civilisations: Persian, Indian and Chinese Civilization

Week 5 - Theoretical

Social and Political Thought in Ancient Greece: Heraclitus, Democritus, Pythagoras, Socrates and the Sophists.

Week 6 - Theoretical

Social and Political Thought in Ancient Greece: Kynikler, Antisthenes.

Week 7 - Theoretical

Diogenes, Pericles, Plato, Epicureans, Stoics and the School of Alexandria in Ancient Greece.

Week 8 - Theoretical

Political Thought in the Medieval Latin World

Week 9 - Theoretical

World Social in Medieval Latin

Week 10 - Theoretical

Advances in Social and Political Thought in Byzantium

Week 11 - Theoretical

Society of Political Thought Yeniçağ'da Luther, Calvin, Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes.

Week 12 - Theoretical

Social and Political Thought in Modern Ages : Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau.

Week 13 - Theoretical

Sample reading passages

Week 14 - Theoretical