Course Details

 

Course Name

Ontology II (The Philosophy of Being)

 

Language of Instruction

Turkish or English

 

 

Course Level

Short Cycle ( )

First Cycle ( )

Second Cycle  ( )

Third Cycle (ü )

 

Course Type

Course Code

Compulsory ( )

Elective (ü)

FEL 602

 

 

 

 

Theory (hour/week)

Application

(hour/week)

Total

(hour/week)

Term

Local Credit

ECTS Credit

3

0

3

Spring

3

5

 

Programmes Offering the Course

Doctorate

 

Course Objectives

Evaluation of the problem of ontology with perspectives of philosophers to 19 century from ancient.

 

Course Content

Major problems related to the concept of "being" after Hegel are investigated and Heidegger’s Being and Time and its effects on contemporary philosophers are searched.

 

Prerequisites

 

 

Electives Recommended

 

 

Learning Outcomes

1.   Possible answers to the problem of Being.

2.    Interpreting ontological ideas of philosophers.

3.    Understanding relation between ontology and other disciplines of philosophy.

 

Course Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Metin Bal

Felsefe Bölümü, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi,

Edebiyat Fakültesi, Öğretim Üyeleri Binası,  Tınaztepe Yerleşkesi,

PK: 35370, Buca - İzmir, Türkiye. Tel: ++ 90 (232) 412 79 03  - dahili tel: 19411, Fax: ++ 90 (232) 453 90 93

E-Posta: balmetin@gmail.com , Web: www.metinbal.net

 

Course Assistant(s)

 

 

Teaching Methods

(ü) Statement

( ) Experience

( ) Demonstration-Remodelling

(ü) Discussion

( ) Case Study

( ) Project based learning

( ) Problem solution

(ü) Individual Study

(ü) Text analysis

 

Course Book / Recommended Sources

1.    Lecture notes

2.    Basic works of contemporary philosophers.

Additional Auxiliary Activities Recommended For Participants

Short-term activities:

1-) Participants of this course are expected to give a presentation on the major work of related philosopher to see to what extend knows the graduate student his/her subject.

2-) Archieve research on the primary and secondary sources of the subject.

3-) Biographical study about the philosopher.

4-) Study of chronological list of the complete works of related subject.

5-) Submission of weekly study of technical terms of the subject.

6-) The participants are expected to be interdisciplinary and to get in contact with other sciences.

Long-term activities:

7-) The participants are expected to immerse themselves in building foreign language skills.

8-) Retrospective and prospective readings in the history of philosophy about the subject.

 

 

Requirements

Number

Percentage

 

Attendance

12

0

 

Quizzes

0

0

 

Midterms

1

%40

Assessment and Evaluation

Assignments/ Seminars

1

0

 

Term Paper/ Project

0

0

 

Application
(Lab., Workshop, Field work etc.)

0

0

 

Other (…………………………………….)

0

0

 

Term

1

%60

 

Total

 

100 %

 

 

                                                                                                                          

Weekly Subjects and Related Preparation Studies

Week

Subjects

Related Preparation

1

Husserl and Philosophy as Rigorous Science

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

2

Husserl and Experiences

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

3

Return to things itself

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

4

From epistemology to ontology: Heidegger

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

5

Between philology and philosophy

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

6

The history of Being according to Heidegger

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

7

The problem of Being

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

8

Midterm

 

9

Experience of being and Dasein

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

10

Being and Temporality

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

11

Beginning of thinking and end of philosphy

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

12

The experience of nullity

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

13

The designable idea of being

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

14

The experience of being in silence

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

15

Being and technological age

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

16

Being in context of cybernetic-futurology

Book, Internet and Library Browsing

17

Final