COURSE TITLE

From Mythos to Logos / 2014-15  Spring Semester /                    Home Page   /     For Turkish click here

Level of Course

PHIL 2130 / Undergraduate 2. Class, IV. Semester Elective Course   / Department of Philosophy / ECTS: 4.

Course Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Metin BAL

Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Dokuz Eylül Üniversity, Tınaztepe Campus,

Postal Code: 35370 , İzmir, TURKEY,

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Web: www.metinbal.net , balmetin@gmail.com

Course Objectives

To Examine into the major works of mythology and to investigate the meaning of mythology for philosophers.The first cosmological models introduced by the presocratics will be discussed. In a broader cultural context the contribution of mythology to the development of philosophical thinking will be examined. The roots of principles of the rational philosophical mind tried to be explored in mythological texts.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES       

Knowledge gained

The participants learn the relation of mythology to philosophy.

TEACHING MATERIAL

Major works of mythology, texts of Greek, Roman and modern philosophers.

Assessment and Evaluation

The students will be graded according to one written midterm and one written final exams.

Course Content

WEEKLY BASED DETAILED COURSE CONTENTS                                                                                                                    

1. week

Cosmogony and Theogony in Greek Mythology: Hesiod's Theogony and Cosmogony.

Conflict Between Antigon and Creon.  Sophocles' Antigon.

"Otoriteyi Sorgulayan Bir Kimse Arayışında Sokrates. Platon’un Kriton Diyaloğu Üzerine", Metin Bal. ss. 131-144. ÖZNE, Felsefe Bilim ve Sanat Yazıları. Sayı: 24. Kitap-Bahar 2016: PLATON. ISBN: 9786059706643, sayfa sayısı: 576. Konya: Çizgi Kitabevi. Sayı editörü: Arş. Gör. Birdal Akar. The Philosopher's Index.

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Greek Mythology in Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus

Bertolt Brecht's Sophocles' Antigone

"Bertolt Brecht’in Epik Tiyatro Kuramının Felsefi Bir Yorumu", Metin Bal, Baykuş Felsefe Yazıları Dergisi, Devrim ve Felsefe sayısı, Yıl: 2009, Sayı: 4. Alef Yayınları, İstanbul. ss. 127 - 147.

Greek Mythology in Sartre's Flies

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Mythology and The Dialectics of Enlightenment

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Selected Bibliography (Primary and Secondary Sources)

Vernant, Jean-Pierre (1994) The Origins of Greek Thought, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

The Historical Background, Mycenaean Royalty, The Crisis of Sovereignty

The Spiritual Universe of the Polis, The Crisis of the City, The Structure of the Human Cosmos

Cosmogonies and Myths of Sovereignty, The New Image of the World

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Kranz, Walter (1984) Antik Felsefe. çev. Suad Y. Baydur, İstanbu: Sosyal Yayınları.

İçindekiler:
Kısım I
I. Homeros Filozof Olarak, II. Dünyanın Doğuşu ve Biçimi Üzerine Eski Öğretiler
III. Eski Özlü Sözler Ahlakı, IV. Milet'li Filozoflar (Thales, Anaximandros, Anaximenes, Tanınmayan Bir Eski İyonyalının Kosmologiasından) V. Pythagoras ve Eski Pythagorasçılar
VI. Ksenophanes, VII. Herakleitos, VIII. Parmenides ve Öğrencileri, IX. Empedokles
X. Sonraki Pythagorasçılar
Kısım II
XI. Anaksagoras, XII. İyonya Felsefesini Yenileyenler, XIII. Atomistler,
XIV. Bilimsel İyonya Hekimliği, XV. Sofistlik,
XVI. Trajedi Yol Gösterici ve Felsefenin Ardılı Olarak
Ek: Sokrates'ten Önceki Felsefenin Geçe-gelişi

Hesiod (1991) The Works and Days, Theogony, The Shield of Herakles, tr. by Richmond Lattimore, The University of Michigan Press.

Barnes, J. (1982), The Presocratic Philosophers (2nd edn.; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).

--- (1987), Early Greek Philosophy (Harmondsworth: Penguin).

Burnet, J. (1930), Early Greek Philosophy (4th edn.; London: Black).

Cartledge, Paul (1998), Democritus and Atomistic Politics (London: Phoenix).

Cherniss, H. (1935), Aristotle's criticism of Presocratic Philosophy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press).

Curd, P. and Graham, D. W. (eds.) (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Diels, H. and Kranz, W. (eds.) (1951-2), Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker 3 vols. (6th edn., Berlin: Weidmann).

Graham, D. W. (2006), Explaining the Cosmos : the Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Gregory, A. (2001), Eureka! The Birth of Science (Cambridge: Icon).

Hussey, E. (1972), The Presocratics (London: Duckworth).

Kahn, C. H. (ed.), (1979), The Art and Thought of Heraclitus : an edition of the fragments with translation and commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

--- (2001), Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans (Indianapolis: Hackett).

Lloyd, G. E. R.  (1979), Magic, Reason and Experience: Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Long, A. A. (ed.), (1999), The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

McKirahan, R. D. (1994), Philosophy Before Socrates (Indianapolis: Hackett).

Mourelatos, A. P. D. (1974), The Pre-Socratics: a Collection of Critical Essays (New York: Anchor Press).

Taylor, C. C. W. (1997), Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. I: From the Beginning to Plato (London and New York: Routledge).

West, M. L. (1971), Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

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