SUİ207

School of Economics and Administrative Sciences \ Political Science and International Relations

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6

Compulsory

Turkish

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This is a must course for the students of Political Science and International Relations Department.
This course is offered to the students of other departments in elective course status.

This course is a theoretical course that examines the basic concepts of political theory, its historical development and the political approaches of different thinkers.
It presents the main outlines of the history of political thought in an academic framework by dealing with concepts such as government, state, authority, freedom and equality.

Aristoteles, Politika, M. Tunçay (çev.), İstanbul: Remzi, ~M.Ö.350/2010, ss. 7-29
Platon, Devlet, S. Eyüboğlu & M. A. Cimcoz (çev.), ~M.Ö.380/2007, İstanbul: TİBKY, ss. v-74
Platon, Yasalar, C. Şentuna & S. Babür (çev.), ~M.Ö.360/2012, İstanbul: Kabalcı, ss. 157-185
Cicero, Devlet Üzerine, C. Çevik (çev.), İstanbul: TİBKY, M.Ö.54-51/2014, ss. 113-155
Farabi, İdeal Devlet, A. Arslan (çev.), İstanbul: Divan, 948/2013, ss. 97-109
Niccolò Machiavelli, Prens, Nazım Güvenç (çev.), İstanbul: Anahtar, 1532/1999, ss. 9-36
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Veya Bir Din ve Dünya Devletinin İçeriği, Biçimi ve Kudreti, S. Lim (çev.), İstanbul: Yapı Kredi, John Locke, Hükümet Üstüne İkinci Tez, A. Doğan (çev.), İzmir: İlya, 1690/2010, ss. 27-41 ve 79-136
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Toplum Sözleşmesi, V. Günyol (çev.), İstanbul: TİBY, 1762/2006, ss. 3-52
Montesquieu, Kanunların Ruhu Üzerine, F. Baldaş (çev.), Ankara: Seç, 1748/2004, ss. 27-51 ve 119-133
Karl Marx ve Friedrich Engels, Alman İdeolojisi, T. Ok ve O. Geridönmez (çev.), İstanbul: Evrensel, 1845-6/2013, ss. 7-17 ve 27-77

Political Theory, one of the core courses of Political Science, has been developed from Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages, from the Renaissance and the Reformation to the Enlightenment and from there to the Enlightenment.
In a wide range of history that extends to the present day, the concept of politics and its associated concepts such as administration, state, authority, religion, freedom, equality, individual aims to present the concepts within a theoretical and historical framework

1. Students will be able to comprehend the tradition of political thought from Ancient Greece to the present.
2. Students will be able to evaluate politics in a theoretical and historical context.
3. Students will develop a critical perspective by comparing political theories from different periods with contemporary political issues.
4. Students will gain the ability to analyze political theoretical texts within a comprehensive reading list, participate in academic discussions, and synthesize the knowledge obtained from these texts to express themselves effectively in both written and oral forms.

Week 1: Theorizing the Politics
Week 2: From Ancient Greece to Rome
Week 3: From Ancient Greece to ROme
Week 4: From Rome to Renaissance
Week 5: From Rome to Renaissance
Week 6: Modernity and Modern Politics
Week 7: Modernity and Modern Politcs
Week 8: The Social Contract
Week 9: The Social Contract
Week 10: Enlightenment, Ideology and Politics
Week 11: Enlightenment, Ideology and Politics
Week 12: Final Week

• Participation % 15
• Assignments % 25
• Midterm % 30
• Final % 30