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HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Concetto MARTELLO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Acquire a first awareness of the link between society, philosophical ideas and practices in the Middle Ages through the highlighting of the paths for which to define and mature a demand of rationality. Make an initial experience of critical reading of medieval philosophical texts. In detail, achieve the following objectives:

1. Initial knowledge of institutional contents and understanding of philosophical language;

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding to the link between philosophies and medieval society;

3. Autonomy of judgment in the search for the question of rationality in the medieval culture:

4. Communication skills in the search for a method of critical reading of the medieval texts;

5. Learning ability of the proposed institutional contents.

Course Structure

The teaching method is based on the deepening of the main themes of the history of medieval thought and philosophy during frontal lessons, which take into account the needs and shortcomings of the students. This needs highlighted in the interaction in which the training relationship consists.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory.

Detailed Course Content

History of philosophical thought from late antiquity to humanism, with particular reference to the Latin language and cultural dynamics which constitute the original contribution of the schools to the definition of the logical and linguistic procedures, as well as to the "growth" of knowledge, through what remains in cultural circles of the ancient philosophical.

Textbook Information

A. The History and the Problems (7 ECTS)

Texts:

- Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri e Massimo Parodi, Storia della filosofia medievale, Laterza, Bari 2012 (pp. 3-463).

- Kurt Flasch, Introduzione alla filosofia medievale, Einaudi, Torino 2002 (pp. 3-246).

 

B. The Political Thought of Dante Alighieri (2 ECTS)

Texts :

- Dante Alighieri, Monarchia, a  cura di Paolo Chiesa e Andrea Tabarroni,  Salerno Editore, Roma 2013, pp. 2-243 (solo dispari);

- Paolo Chiesa, Andrea Tabarroni, Introduzione, in Dante Alighieri, Monarchia, Salerno Editore, Roma 2013, pp. xix-lxxxvi.

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

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