Course Name
|
Turkish |
Siyaset Felsefesi
|
| English |
Political Philosophy |
Course Code
|
SYC 501E |
Credit |
Lecture
(hour/week) |
Recitation
(hour/week) |
Laboratory
(hour/week) |
| Semester |
1
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
- |
| Course Language |
English |
| Course Coordinator |
Gürcan Koçan
|
| Course Objectives |
To help students to improve their ability to read carefully, write and speak clearly, and think analytically.
To allow the students to gain a critical understanding of some of the most important issues and theories in Political Philosophy.
To enhance students knowledge of central terms of political theory and sharpen their conceptual skills to identify, compare and evaluate philosophical arguments
To develop students conceptual skills needed to compare, evaluate and analyze philosophical arguments within the field of political theory
|
| Course Description |
This course aims to provide a critical and historical overview of some major works in the history of political philosophy and to provide an introduction to the various theories and concepts which influence political discourses. It will engage a detailed study of substantial portions of primary texts by philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle- Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel Marx and Nietzsche. The emphasis throughout will be on the philosophical importance of the thoughts studied.
|
| Course Outcomes |
I. Understand the basic philosophical approaches and apply them to real-world political issues.
II. Think critically and to analyses political concepts from philosophical perspectives
III. Apply critical thinking skills and logical reasoning processes to resolve social problems.
IV. Improve communication skills and develop an open-minded and respectful attitude towards peers. |
| Pre-requisite(s) |
|
| Required Facilities |
|
| Other |
|
| Textbook |
Classics of Moral and Political Theory edt by Michael L. Morgan, New York: Hackett Publishing Company (2006) |
| Other References |
Secondary Readings
Kymlicka, W. 2002. Contemporary Political Philosophy: an Introduction. Second Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Plato
• Annas, J. 1981. An Introduction to Plato's Republic. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Chs.4 and 7.
• Klosko, G. 1986. The Development of Plato's Political Theory. London: Methuen.
• Pappas, N. 1995. Plato and the Republic. London: Routledge.
• Woozley, A. D. 1979. Law and Obedience: The Arguments of Plato's ‘Crito'. London: Duckworth.
Aristotle
• Lloyd, G. E. R. 1968. Aristotle, The Growth and Structure of his Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch.11.
• Mulgan, R. G. 1977. Aristotle's Political Theory: an Introduction for Students of Political Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Aquinas
• McInerny, Ralph, M. 1982. Ethica Thomistica: the Moral Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Washington, DC.: Catholic University of America Press.
• Westberg, D. 1994. Right Practical Reason: Aristotle, Action, and Prudence in Aquinas. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Hobbes
• Gauthier, David P. 1969. The Logic of Leviathan: the Moral and Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Hampton, J. 1986. Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kavka, Gregory S. 1986. Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.
• Tuck, R. 1989. Hobbes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Locke
• Ashcraft, R. 1987. Locke's Two Treatises of Government. London: Allen & Unwin.
• Cohen, G. A. 1995. ‘Marx and Locke on Land & Labour'. In Self-Ownership, Freedom & Equality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Lloyd Thomas, D. A. 1995. Locke on Government. London: Routledge.
• Simmons, A. John. 1980. Moral Principles and Political Obligations. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. Chs. 3-4.
• Simmons, A. John.. 1992. The Lockean Theory of Rights. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.
• Simmons, A. John.. 1993. On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Society. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.
David Hume
• Ayer, A. J. 1980. Hume. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Baier, A. 1991. The Progress of the Sentiments: Reflections on Hume's Treatise. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
• Baillie, J. 2000. Hume on Morality. London: Routledge.
• Bennett, J. 1971. Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes. Oxford: Clarendon Press. A defiantly ahistorical interpretation, as with the other two British Empiricists.
• Flew, A. 1961. Hume's Philosophy of Belief: a Study of his First ‘Inquiry'. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Rather old-fashioned, but still worth looking at.
• Fogelin, R. J. 1985. Hume's Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Emphasises his scepticism.
• Livingston, D. 1984. Hume's Philosophy of Common Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Mackie, J. L. 1980. Hume's Moral Theory . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Noonan, H. 1999. Hume on Knowledge. London: Routledge.
• Norton, D. F. 1993. ‘Hume, Human Nature and the Foundations of Morality'. In D. F. Norton, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hume. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Stroud, B. 1977. Hume. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Something of a standard introduction, emphasising Hume's naturalism.
Rousseau
• Bertran, C. 2003. Rousseau and the Social Contract. London: Routledge.
• Cassirer, E. 1987. The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Edited and translated by Peter Gay. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
• Charvet, J. 1974. The Social Problem in the Philosophy of Rousseau. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Dent, N. 1988. Rousseau: Introduction to his Psychological, Social, and Political Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Dent, N. 2005. Rousseau London: Routledge.
• Jones, W. T. 1987. ‘Rousseau's General Will and the Problem of Consent'. Journal of the History of Philosophy 25: 105-130.
• Kateb, G. 1976. ‘Aspects of Rousseau's Political Thought'. Political Science Quarterly.
Kant
• Allison, H. 1990. Kant's Theory of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Beck, L. W. 1960. A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Guyer, P. ed. 1992. The Cambridge Companion to Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Herman, B. 1993. The Practice of Moral Judgement. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univsrsity Press.
• Korsgaard, C. 1996. Creating the Kingdom of Ends. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• O'Neill, O. 1989. The Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hegel
• Knowles, Dudley, 2003. Hegel and the Philosophy of Right. London: Routledge
• Taylor, C. 1979. Hegel and Modern Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Waldron, J. 1988. The Right to Private Property. Oxford: Clarendon. Ch.10.
• Wood, Allen W. 1990. Hegel's Ethical Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Marx
• Callinicos, A. ed. 1989. Marxist Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Carter, A. 1988. Marx: A Radical Critique. Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books.
• Carver, T. 1982. Marx's Social Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Carver, T. ed. 1991. The Cambridge Companion to Marx. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Cohen, G. A. 1988. History, Labour and Freedom: themes from Marx. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Ch.1.
• Cohen, M., T. Nagel, and T. Scanlon. eds. 1980. Marx, Justice and History: a Philosophy & Public Affairs Reader. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.
• Conway, David. 1987. A Farewell to Marx: an Outline and Appraisal of his Theories. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Usefully assembles and summarises a number of critical discussions, although the interpretations and judgements it contains are often controversial.
• Elster, Jon. 1985. Making Sense of Marx. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kolakowski, L. 1978. Main Currents of Marxism: its Rise, Growth, and Dissolution. Translated by P. S. Falla. 3 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Vol.1.
• Kolakowski, L. 1978. Main Currents of Marxism: its Rise, Growth, and Dissolution. Translated by P. S. Falla. 3 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Vol.1.
• McLellan, D. 1970. Marx before Marxism. 2 nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1980.
• Roemer, J. ed. 1986. Analytical Marxism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Singer, P. 1980. Marx. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Wolff, J. 2002. Why Read Marx Today ? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Wolff, Jonathan. 2002. Why Read Marx Today? Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Wood, Allen W. 1980. ‘The Marxian Critique of Justice'. In M. Cohen, T. Nagel, and T. Scanlon, eds., Marx, Justice and History. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press.
• Wood, Allen W. 1981. Karl Marx. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Mill
• Berlin, I. 1969. ‘Two Concepts of Liberty '. In Four Essays on Liberty. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in Political Philosophy, ed., Anthony Quinton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Dworkin, Gerald. ed. 1997. Mill's On Liberty: Critical Essays. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Gray, J., and G. W. Smith. eds. 1991. J. S. Mill on Liberty: In Focus. London: Routledge.
• Gray, John. 1983. Mill On Liberty: A Defence. 2 nd ed. London: Routledge, 1996.
• MacCallum, C. G. 1967. ‘Negative and Positive Freedom'. Philosophical Review 76: 312-334.
• Taylor, C. 1985. ‘What's Wrong With Negative Liberty'. Reprinted in Philosophy and the Human Sciences. Philosophical Papers 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Ten, C. L. 1980. Mill On Liberty. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Wolff, Jonathan. 1998. ‘Mill, Indecency & the Liberty Principle'. Utilitas 10: 1-16
Nietzsche
• Clark, Maudmarie. 1990. Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kaufman, Walter. 1974. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
• Leiter, Brian. 2002. Nietzsche on Morality : London: Routledge.
• Magnus, Bernd and Kathleen Higgins. eds. 1996. The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche. Cambridge: Cambridge
• May, Simon. 1999. Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on ‘Morality'. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Nehamas, Alexander. 1985. Nietzsche: Life as Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
• Richardson, John, and Brian Leiter, eds. 2001. Nietzsche. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Richardson, John. 1996. Nietzsche's System. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Schacht, Richard. 1983. Nietzsche. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Schacht, Richard. ed. 1994. Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Silk, M, and J. Stern. 1981. Nietzsche on Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Tanner, Michael. 1994. Nietzsche. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Young, Julian. 1992. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rawls
• —. 1993. Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press.
• —. 1999. Collected Papers. S. Freeman, ed. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press
• —. 1999. The Law of Peoples. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
• Barry, B. 1995. Justice as Impartiality. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Daniels, N. ed. 1975. Reading Rawls: Critical Studies on Rawls' ‘A Theory of Justice'. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Freeman, S. 2002. The Cambridge Companion to Rawls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Gibbard, A. 1991. ‘Constructing Justice'. Philosophy and Public Affairs 20: 264-279
• Mulhall, S. and A. Swift. 1996. Liberals and Communitarians. 2 nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell. Chs. 1, 5-7.
• Rawls, J. 1972. A Theory of Justice. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Sandel, M. J. 1982. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
|
|