ISTITUZIONI DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA

Filosofia ISTITUZIONI DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA

0312500262
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
EQF6
PHILOSOPHY
2017/2018

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2016
PRIMO SEMESTRE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
1260LESSONS
Objectives
FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A:
THE THEACHING OF THE DISCIPLINE 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 THEACHING OF THE DISCIPLINE AIMS AT PROVIDING STUDENTS A BASIC KNOWLEDGE AND A FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE MAIN CONCEPTS AND MOMENTS IN THE MODERN HISTORY AND OF THE SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENTS OF THE WESTERN THOUGHT. IT ALSO HAS THE OBJECTIVE TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE INDIVIDUAL THEMES TO THE WIDER CONTEXT OF THE HISTORICAL PROCESS, WHICH GIVES US AN AUTONOMOUS JUDGEMENT, FOR THE PURPOSES OF AN AWARE AND ADEQUATE UNDERSTANDING IN TERMS OF COMPETENCES, TOO.
Prerequisites
NO PREREQUISITE IS REQUIRED
Contents
FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY - FIRST PART:
THE COURSE WILL DEAL WITH THE MAIN THEMES OF ANCIENT AND LATE ANCIENT THOUGHT, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE PRE-SOCRATIC TRADITION (5 HOURS), TO THE SOPHISTIC DOCTRINES (3 HOURS), TO THE SOCRATIC REFLECTION (2 HOURS), TO THE PLATONIC (5 HOURS) AND ARISTOTELIAN THOUGHT (5 HOURS), TO THE HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHIES (5 HOURS), AND TO THE NEOPLATONIC PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION, PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN (5 HOURS).
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 WILL ALTERNATIVELY PRESENT READINGS OF EXCERPTS FROM WORKS AMONG THE MOST REPRESENTATIVE AND EXPOSE THE MAIN PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINES OF THOUGHT, ALSO WITH THE SUPPORT OF OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTRUMENTS.

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 the history of Philosophy
Texts
FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY - FIRST PART:
P. DONINI - F. FERRARI, L’ESERCIZIO DELLA RAGIONE NEL MONDO CLASSICO. PROFILO DELLA FILOSOFIA ANTICA, TORINO 2005, CAPP. I-VI.
M. ABBATE, TRA ESEGESI E TEOLOGIA. STUDI SUL NEOPLATONISMO, MIMESIS EDIZIONI 2012.
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