Lectures
33
Quizzes
1
Duration
05:26:00
Language
English
with Subtitles
with Subtitles
Students
147
Certificate
Yes
Publishing year
2021
Lectures
33
Quizzes
1
Duration
05:26:00
Language
English
with Subtitles
with Subtitles
Students
147
Certificate
Yes
Publishing year
2021
Overview
Overview
This course explores the philosophical attempts to articulate the relation between metaphysics/theology and social/political orders. It provides a historical-thematic view of the subject matter. In this respect, it covers central approaches to the subject, in Greek philosophy, Islamic and Christian thought, and Modern philosophy.
Lecturer
Lecturer
Ahmed Abdel Meguid is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. He earned his BA at the American University in Cairo and his MA and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Emory University. His research draws on Islamic and German Philosophy focusing on metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mind and social and political philosophy. He has published and has forthcoming articles in the European Journal of Political Theory, Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, Journal of the History of Philosophy, British Journal of the History of Philosophy and the Review of Metaphysics. He is currently finalizing two monographs titled: Being and Representation: Ibn al-‘Arabī’s Modal Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind and Rethinking Al-Kindī’s Philosophy: the Systematization of Early Islamic Modal Epistemology
Curriculum
Curriculum
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Plato’s Republic: The political subject, the body politic and metaphysics
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Aristotle’s Politics: The critique of Plato and the re-casting of the relations between the political subject and the body politic
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Introduction
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Reading Aristotle’s Politics Books I and II: Civility, the critique of Plato’s epistemic aristocracy, and on civil order
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3.
Reading Aristotle’s Politics Books III-VI: On the Platonic paradox
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Reading Aristotle’s Politics Books VII-VIII: On the perfect constitution and the borderline between democracy and oligarchy
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5.
Conclusion
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1.
Introduction
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Highlights of Islamic Political Philosophy: al-Fārābī’s Theory in Relation to Aristotle and Plato
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1.
Introduction
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al-Fārābī on the Taxonomy of Rational Sciences and the Need for a Mediating Relationship between Rational Universals and Sensible Experience: The Implications for Political Philosophy
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3.
al-Fārābī’s Book of Religion and On the Perfect State: The Role of the Virtuous Ruler and Virtuous Religious Sciences
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4.
al-Fārābī’s Book of Religion and On the Perfect State: Continued
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5.
Conclusion
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1.
Introduction
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Aquinas and Metaphysical Reign of the Sacred over the Profane
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Early Modern Materialist Rationalism—Spinoza: Theological Political Treatise Pantheistic Rational Materialism and the Promise of Secularism
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Enlightenment Protestant Liberalism—Immanuel Kant: Politics and the Rational Limits of Moral Religion and Scientific Judgments
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Theoretical and Philosophical Blurring of the Boundaries between the Secular and the Religious—Carl Schmitt Politische Theologie
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1.
Introduction
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Carl Schmitt’s State of Exception and the Revolt against 19th Century Political Romanticism: Reversing al-Juwaynī
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3.
Carl Schmitt, Existentialism and Decisions Theory: Critiques of Enlightenment Liberal Assumptions
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4.
Carl Schmitt and the Inescapability of Theology and Dictatorship: Critiques of Liberalism and Marxism
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5.
Conclusion
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1.
Introduction
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