İDE205

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

3

6

Elective

English

-

Undergraduate

In this course, students who learn about the field of Philosophy will be able to recognize the perspective and methods of a different discipline.
and apply them to their own fields when necessary.

Philosophy in Literature: A Survey of the Novel of İDEa by John L. Bell.

This course aims to examine the basic concepts and problems of Western philosophy in a historical perspective and to analyze the literary works to reach an understanding of philosophical indicators in evaluating conceptualized problems It aims to discuss and reconsider in the light of philosophical influence.

1. To learn the links between literature and philosophy.

Week 1: What is philosophy; What are the relations between philosophy and literature; What are the main fields of philosophy?
Week 2: Aristotle's and Plato's views on art; Aristotle's literary criticism
Week 3: The existentialist hero Oedipus; free will vs. fatalism
Week 4: Brave New World • Aldous Huxley; 1984 • George Orwell • dystopias; utilitarianism; totalitarianism; ethical issues in the context of scientific innovations and sociopolitical developments; in both novels existing epistemological issues
Week 5: German Philosophical Literature; German idealism and Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain artwork
Week 6: monism versus dualism
Week 7: basic features of self-consciousness; the will to live; the subjective nature of reality;
Week 8: progress in human history • the opposition between direct and indirect
Week 9: Russian Philosophical Literature Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground; existentialism versus nihilism
Week 10: rigidly under the Enlightenment movement the rise against a rationalist and materialist view of existence
Week 11: Frankenstein; ethics • the problematic of good and evil; what does it mean to be human?
Week 12: The ethical context of science and knowledge; the social contract and the "noble savage"

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Quizzes 30 %