PHIL616 ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT
| Course Code: |
2410616 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Philosophy |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. ÞEREF HALÝL TURAN |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
Course Content
Conceptions and development of ethical and political philosophy of the Scottish philosophers of the eighteenth century; the conceptions of egoism and sympathy; social change and development of critical thinking; the conception of the human being as the source of truth and value; human nature and its ethical and political dimensions; the formation of the modern subject; the relations of the Scottish Enlightenment with the French and the German.
