Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Introduction: What is phiosophy of history? Are res gestae and historia rerum gestarum related to one another?
Week - 2	The concept of history in ancient and medieval era-1: Plato and Aristotle on history
Week - 3	The concept of history in ancient and medieval era-2: St. Augustine as the first philosopher of history
Week - 4	Ibn Khaldun and Muqaddimah: the origins of a civilization theory. Shall history be based on examining societies and civilizations?
Week - 5	The conception of history from Renaissance to 19th century in general.
Week - 6	Vico as the father of philosophy of history as it is conceived today. The New Science and its implications on the later European culture.
Week - 7	19th century as ‘the century of history’ and of ‘German Idealism’. Herder, Thoughts On The Philosophy of History of Humanity; Kant, A General View of History Towards A Cosmopolitan Intent.
Week - 8	Major German Idealists- Fichte, The Fundamental Characteristics of Our Time; Schelling, The Concept of History, Is There A Philosophy of History?; Hegel, Philosophy of History of The World, Reason in History: An Introduction to Philosophy of History. The German School of History and the collapse of German Idealism.
Week - 9	New perspectives on history in the 19th century: 1. Historical/Dialectical materialism. Selections from Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy; Marx, 1844 Manuscripts. The philosophical foundations of ‘communist/socialist’ ideology, 2. Positivism, 3. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Burckhardt
Week - 10	Perspectives on history in the 20th century-1: Neo-Kantianism
Week - 11	Perspectives on history in the 20th century-2: Dilthey, historicism, hermeneutics
Week - 12	Perspectives on history in the 20th century-3: Spengler, Toynbee, Neo-Marxism, the Frankfurt School
Week - 13	Evaluation-1: The significance and value of the philosophy of history within the history of thought
Week - 14	Evaluation-2: The impact of the perspectives in philosophy of history on politics and ideological tension.