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Course Name	Turkish	Etik
	English	Ethics
Course Code	ITB 219E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Gürcan Koçan Gürcan Koçan
Course Objectives		The course has six main goals. • The first goal is to gain a deeper understanding of the ethical theories. • The second goal help the student to develop an understanding of some models of ethical decision-making. • The third goal is to sharpen student’s ability think critically and analytically about ethical issues that arise in the context of everyday life. • The fourth objective is to identify, explicate, analyze and evaluate major arguments of an essay in moral philosophy. • The fifth goal is to develop your own ethical convictions logically and consistently as a basis for distinguishing good and bad in human conduct. • The sixth aim to sharpen student’s competence in basic research and critical/analytical reading and writing.
Course Description		This course will introduce the students to basic concepts and theories of ethics. It will begin by asking the enduring question of philosophy what is the meaning of life? And what if there is no meaning to life? Or if the meaning of life is found and if the found meaning of life is absurd, then is it possible to call life as an absurd? So in this course, asking these questions, we will be studying, formulating, comparing and contrasting arguments and views regarding different aspects of ethics. We will be systematically thinking about what is ethics? Is ethics a matter of asking what is good life and right action? Or what is that makes life good and right? Another way of thinking about ethics is in terms of the moral laws people support? How do we know which those moral laws right or wrong? What is that makes acts as right and wrong? What sort of ethical person should one strive to be? In this course, we will join a long tradition of philosophical ethics in examining these different questions and seeking answers to them.
Course Outcomes		By the time of successful completion of the course: Students will have developed an awareness of some of the main themes and issues in ethical thoery Students will have developed the ability to undertake a critical reading of philosophical texts Students will have developed the ability both orally and in writing to critically evaluate positions that are presented to tham by particpating in seminar activities such as a systematic interpretation or explanation of a view and discussing the attributes of that view.
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Textbook		Julian Baggini, Peter Fosl The Ethics Toolkit: A Compendium of Ethical Concepts and Methods (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) Lawrence Hinman, Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus, New York: Prentice Hall, 2005) Lewis Vaughn Writing Philosophy A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) Mark Timmons Moral Theory: An Introduction (New York: Rowman Littlefield, 2002) Russ Shafer-Landau Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)
Other References		Aristotle. The Complete Works of Aristotle 2 vols., ed. Barnes New York: Princeton, 1984. Becker, Lawrence C., and Charlotte B. Becker, eds. Encyclopedia of Ethics. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2001. Copp, David (editor), The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Darwall, Stephen, Allan Gibbard, and Peter Railton, eds. Moral Discourse and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Kagan, S. The Limits of Morality. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Mill, J. S. . Utilitarianism. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. Co, 1979. Moore, G.E. Principia Ethica Cambridge, 1903. Nozick, Robert. . Anarchy, State and Utopia. NY: Basic Books, 1974. Rachels, James The Elements of Moral Philosophy (Fifth Edition) Railton, P. Facts. Values, and Norms. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Rawls, John Theory of Justice. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. Ross, W. D The Right and the Good. Philip Stratton-Lake, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press . 1930; 200. Scarre, Geoffrey. Utilitarianism. NY: Routledge., 1996. Sen, Amartya. Rights and Agency. PPA 11, 3-39. 1982. Singer, Peter, ed. A Companion to Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

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