FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A+B

Filosofia FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A+B

0312500077
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
PHILOSOPHY
2015/2016

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2010
PRIMO SEMESTRE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
1ISTITUZIONI DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA A
630LESSONS
2ISTITUZIONI DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA B
630LESSONS
Objectives
FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A:
THE COURSE AIMS TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUE AND LATE ANTIQUE PHILOSOPHY. THEY WILL THUS BE ABLE TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE WESTERN SPECULATIVE TRADITION. THE STUDENTS CAN THEN BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES IN THEIR ORIGIN AND CONSEQUENTIALLY IN THEIR HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT. THIS WILL ENABLE THE STUDENTS TO ASSESS AUTONOMOUSLY THE DIFFERENT HISTORICAL-SPECULATIVE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE DIFFERENT CURRENTS OF ANTIQUE AND LATE ANTIQUE THOUGHT, CURRENTS WHICH INFLUENCED SO DEEPLY OUR SPECULATIVE TRADITION. THE STUDENTS CAN ALSO IMPROVE THEIR PRESENTATION SKILLS AND LEARNING ABILITIES THROUGH THE IDENTIFICATION OF SOME KEY CONCEPTS IN THE ENTIRE WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION.

FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY B:
THE COURSE AIMS TO PROVIDE BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE WEST FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO CONTEMPORARY AGE, TO SHOW THE LINES OF CONTINUITY AND MOMENTS OF TURNING POINT
Prerequisites
NO PREREQUISITE
Contents
FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A:
EXPOSITION AND DISCUSSION OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORS AND THE MAIN THEMES OF ANTIQUE AND LATE ANTIQUE THOUGHT, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE PRE-SOCRATIC TRADITION, TO THE SOPHISTIC DOCTRINES, TO THE SOCRATIC REFLECTION, TO THE PLATONIC AND ARISTOTELIAN THOUGHT, TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINES ELABORATED IN HELLENISM, AND TO THE NEO-PLATONIC PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION, PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN.

FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY B:
EXPOSITION AND DISCUSSION OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORS AND THE MAIN THEMES OF MIDDLE AGES, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO MEDIEVAL THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT, CARTESIAN PHILOSOPHY, KANTIANISM, GERMAN IDEALISM
Teaching Methods
FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A:
THE COURSE OFFERS A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ANTIQUE AND LATE ANTIQUE PHILOSOPHY THROUGH THE EXPOSITION OF THE MAIN PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AUTHORS AND CURRENTS OF THOUGHT. THIS EXPOSITION WILL ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED WITH COMMENTARY OF PASSAGES OF PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT AND RELEVANT TEXTS.

FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY B:
THE COURSE OFFERS A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY THROUGH THE EXPOSITION OF THE MAIN PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AUTHORS AND CURRENTS OF THOUGHT. THIS EXPOSITION WILL ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED WITH COMMENTARY OF PASSAGES OF PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT AND RELEVANT TEXTS.
Verification of learning
FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A:
IN THE ORAL EXAM, THE STUDENT MUST DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORS AND THE MOST IMPORTANT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT IN ANTIQUE AND LATE ANTIQUE PHILOSOPHY: PRE-SOCRATIC TRADITION, THE SOPHISTS, SOCRATES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, THE HELLENISTIC SCHOOLS, THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEOPLATONISM (PLOTINUS-PROCLUS). PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE WILL BE GIVEN TO THE ABILITY SHOWN BY THE STUDENTS TO PROPOSE LINKS AND CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT AUTHORS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINES.

FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY B (PROF.SSA CANTILLO):
IN THE ORAL EXAM, THE STUDENT MUST DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORS AND THE MOST IMPORTANT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT IN MEDIEVAL, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY. PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE WILL BE GIVEN TO THE ABILITY SHOWN BY THE STUDENTS TO PROPOSE LINKS AND CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT AUTHORS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINES.
Texts
FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A:
P. DONINI - F. FERRARI, L’ESERCIZIO DELLA RAGIONE NEL MONDO CLASSICO. PROFILO DELLA FILOSOFIA ANTICA, TORINO 2005, CAPP. III, VII E VIII.
M. ABBATE, TRA ESEGESI E TEOLOGIA. STUDI SUL NEOPLATONISMO, MIMESIS EDIZIONI 2012.

FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY B:
HIGH SCHOOLS MANUAL OF PHILOSOPHY

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