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Browsing M.A. Theses by Author "Sidiropoulou, Chryssi."

Browsing M.A. Theses by Author "Sidiropoulou, Chryssi."

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  • A late Wittgensteinian approach to early Christian apophaticism 
    Sadıkoğlu, Çetin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis investigates the possibility of a ground on which language can provide us with an opportunity to talk about God, despite the concerns about His ineffability as argued by religious apophaticism. Apophaticism is ...
  • Aristotle's notion of physis and its implications for his thics 
    Akarsu, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to analyze Aristotle's conception of eudaimonia, human well-being, with a view to his understanding of physis, nature. It focuses on the effects of Aristotle's teleological understanding of nature on his ...
  • Aristotle’s De Anima II.5 in the light of the Literalism–Spiritualism debate 
    Çetinkaya, Ekrem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This thesis aims to offer a detailed and critical reading of a section of De Anima, namely of DA II.5, which appears to occupy a central place in a modern debate between literalist and spiritualist interpreters of Aristotle’s ...
  • Embodiment of rules in action :|primacy of action in late Wittgenstein and Marx 
    Bakır, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis investigates how rules and actions can be related to each other in an immanent way. To do this, I first focus on a prominent thinker, Ferdinand de Saussure, who defends the inevitability of separating rules and ...
  • How to provide a consistent account of akrasia 
    Geyik, Sefa. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    The aim of this thesis is to provide o consistent solution for the philosophical problem of akrasia. Akrasia, a Greek word, is translated into English as “lacking command over oneself” or “weakness of will”. The question ...
  • Humans on the thresholds of history :|Protagoras, Pico della Mirandola, and Herder 
    Küçük, Eyüp Engin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis presents the transformation of the ideas on the nature of human beings throughout three fundamental thresholds of the history of philosophy by examining the three representative philosophers from these thresholds. ...
  • Ineffability and interpretation in Wittgenstein’s philosophy of art 
    Kılıç, Kadir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    In contemporary philosophy, there is tension between ineffabilist and interpretivist theories of art. The ineffabilist claims that the discontinuity between art and non artistic practices implies the impossibility of ...
  • Is later Wittgenstein a relativist?: an investigation on / through forms of life 
    Turan, Caner. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    There are two main interconnected concerns of this thesis. One is to make an investigation on “forms of life” which is one of the most important notions in philosophical framework of later Wittgenstein. When Wittgenstein ...
  • Love, reason and transcendence : ‘Ineffable’ love and the limits of sense 
    Kurtar, Buse. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Love is one of the greatest phenomena if not the greatest. Thus, in my MA thesis, I am investigating the concept of Love in its connections to transcendence, to the divine in contrast to the limits of “sense” both as the ...
  • Meno’s paradox and the possibility of inquiry 
    Panahee, Mohammad Raziq. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Plato in his Meno puts forward a challenge against the possibility of inquiry. This challenge has two stages, at one, Meno’s questions challenge the possibility of inquiry in the case of how different kinds of knowledge ...
  • Musical paideia in Plato’s republic 
    Coşkun, İlter. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis intends to unsettle, at least to some degree, the conviction that music, poetry and fine arts in general do not have a salient status in Platonic philosophy. To this end, the conception of musical education ...
  • The question of evil in Plato 
    Oranlı, İmge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis aims at understanding Plato’s conception of evil. For this we are trying to determine what evil is in various aspects of Platonic Philosophy. We are arguing that in all of these aspects, in ontology, cosmology, ...
  • The role and significance of curiosity in philosophy for children 
    Altıparmak, İrem Günhan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an educational movement which aims to develop children’s thinking and reasoning skills by means of engaging them in intellectual inquiry and questioning. Though P4C is predominantly based ...
  • The unconcealedness of the truth: a study in Heideggerian understanding of truth 
    Kılıkçıer, Ahmet Serkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis attempts to elaborate on different accounts of truth in Heidegger’s philosophy to investigate whether Heidegger’s understanding of Being as manifestness is metaphysically constructed. After this our investigation ...
  • "The Unity of Existence" in IbnʿArabī's Seals of Wisdom and Plotinus’ Enneads 
    Ghazani, Rasoul Rahbari. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The doctrine of ‘the unity of existence’ or ‘oneness of being’, generally referred to as the doctrine of ‘the One,’ is of cardinal importance in philosophy. It has penetrated the Greek and Islamic Metaphysics so deep ...
  • Therapeutic philosophy:|Advantages and limitations 
    Özer, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    Wittgenstein saw philosophy as an activity of clarification and description of various language-games. Following his methodology, this thesis outlines a Wittgensteinian political philosophy that is equipped with the ...
  • Who are the political friends? Homonoia and political friendship in Aristotle’s political thinking 
    Hepçağlayan, Cansu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    The notion of political friendship holds a unique institutional function in Aristotle’s political philosophy. He considers political friendship, as a specific account of friendship between citizens of the polis, as an ...

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