PHIL616 ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT
| Course Code: | 2410616 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Philosophy |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. ŞEREF HALİL TURAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
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.