Information Package / Course Catalogue
Practical Issues Today in Ethics
Course Code: FLSF644
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

This course aims to provide students with a presentation and discussion of today's main practical ethical approaches and issues.

Course Content

In this course, today's main practical ethical approaches or theories and problems will be examined and discussed through the writings of contemporary philosophers.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Berfin KART TEPE
Learning Outcomes
1.To know the practical ethical approaches and problems of our age,
2.To be able to compare them from their own perspectives,
3.To be able to grasp the similarities and differences between these approaches and problems,
4.Ability to form and express their own ethical perspectives
5.It is expected that they will be able to apply the ethical perspective they have acquired to the problems they will encounter in the practical field.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Aristoteles (1998). Nikomakhos’a Etik, çev: Saffet Babür, Ankara: Ayraç Yayınları, Jonas, H., (1985)
2.Ioanna Kucuradi. Etik, Ankara: Tu¨rkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları.
3.Ioanna Kucuradi. Ahlak, Etik ve Etikler, Ankara: Tu¨rkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları.
4.Ioanna Kucuradi. Uludagˆ Konus¸maları, Ankara: Tu¨rkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları.
5.Harun Tepe. ‘Pratik Etik’ Etigˆin Pratik Sorunları, Ankara: BilgeSu Yayınları.
6.Harun Tepe. ‘Teorik Etik’ Etigin Bilgisel Sorunları, Ankara: BilgeSu Yayınları.
7.Harun Tepe. Etiğe Giriş Kuramlardan Pratik Etiğe, Ankara: BilgeSu Yayınları
8.Harun Tepe. Etik ve Metaetik, Ankara: Turkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları.
9.Berfin Kart Tepe, Etikte Öznellik Nesnellik Tartışması,Ankara: BilseSu Yayınları
10.Berfin Kart Tepe, Erdem Etiği-Aristotelesçi Kökenlerinden Günümüze, Ankara: Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları
11.Immanuel Kant. Ahlak Metafizigˆinin Temellendirilmesi, Ankara: Tu¨rkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları.
12.Immanuel Kant. Pratik Aklın Eles¸tirisi, Ankara: Tu¨rkiye Felsefe Kurumu Yayınları
13.Immanuel Kant. The Doctrine Of Virtue, Trans. Mary Gregor, Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press.
14.Peter Singer. Pratik Etik , Etik Hakkında
15.Jurgen Habermas, So¨ylem Etigˆi, Fol Yayınları.
16.Martha Nusbaumm. Yapabilirlikler Yaratmak, I·letis¸im Yayıncılık
17.G.E.M, Anscombe. “Modern Moral Philosophy”, CRISP, Roger and SLOTE, Michael (Editor). Virtue Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press, 26-45.
18.Jonas, H.The Imperative of Responsibility. In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
19.Hursthouse, Rosalind. On Virtue Ethics, New York City: Oxford University Press
20.Pojman, Louis P. Moral Philosophy: A Reader , Indianapolis, Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company.
21.Statman, Daniel. Virtue Ethics: A Critical Reader, Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
An overview of contemporary ethics
Week 2 - Theoretical
Foundations and problems of contemporary ethics
Week 3 - Theoretical
Contemporary ethical theories: Neo-Kantian, Neo-Utilitarian, Virtue Ethics, Emotivism and problems
Week 4 - Theoretical
Contemporary ethical theories: Ethics of Contextual Values, Metaethics or Analytical Ethics, Normative Ethics and problems
Week 5 - Theoretical
Contemporary ethical theories: Ethics of Responsibility, Ethics of Discussion, Postmodern Ethics and problems
Week 6 - Theoretical
Bridging the problems of theoretical ethics to the problems of practical ethics
Week 7 - Theoretical
Contemporary ethical theories: Ethics of Contextual Values, Metaethics or Analytical Ethics, Normative Ethics and problems
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Mid-term Exam
Week 9 - Theoretical
Contemporary ethical theories: Ethics of Contextual Values, Metaethics or Analytical Ethics, Normative Ethics and problems
Week 10 - Theoretical
Bioethics, medical ethics, psychiatry ethics and problems
Week 11 - Theoretical
Environmental ethics, land ethics, anthropocentrism and ecocentrism
Week 12 - Theoretical
Communication and journalism ethics
Week 13 - Theoretical
Migration and ethical issues
Week 14 - Theoretical
“Violence” and “discrimination” as an ethical problem
Week 15 - Theoretical
General Remarks
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Reading130226
Quiz120121
Midterm Examination130131
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)120
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
OÇ-1
1
OÇ-2
2
OÇ-3
1
OÇ-4
1
OÇ-5
2
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026