History of philosophy

The course aims to ensure that students acquire a critical awareness of the history of philosophy and get to know the thought of the main authors and the major philosophical currents of the modern age, also through the reading of an early modern philosophical text.

In particular, the course aims to make students achieve the following specific learning objectives, in accordance with the Dublin descriptors:

1) Knowledge and insight.

The students possess the basic understanding of the historical development of philosophy, know the major currents of thought and the work and critical reflection of the major representatives of the philosophy of the modern age and understand the theses set out in a philosophical text, using specific language.

2) Applying knowledge and insight.

The students can address philosophical issues and problems starting from their historical contextualization, opening to the possibility of referring them to contemporaneity and therefore to the understanding and resolution of problems within their own field of study and research, and beyond.

3) Judgment.

The students possess the ability to develop their own judgment on the major philosophical themes dealt with and can autonomously interpret the reflections present in the philosophical texts.

4) Communication.

The students are aware of how to present and communicate, both orally and in writing, the contents of the course and the critical reflections that start from it, reasoning logically and using the specific vocabulary of the discipline in an adequate manner.

5) Learning skills.

PART ONE – Prof. L. Ingaliso

A – Philosophy in Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century (1 ECTS): Philosophy in the fifteenth century – Philosophy in the sixteenth century – Reform and politics in the sixteenth century – Scientific thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – Descartes.

PART TWO – Prof. C. Giarratana

B – Philosophy in Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (3 ECTS): Hobbes – Spinoza –Locke – Leibniz –Vico – English philosophy in the XVIII Century – Hume and the Scottish philosophy in the XVIII Century – French Enlightenment – German and Italian Enlightenment – Kant – Fichte – The Romantic age – Schelling – Hegel.

PART ONE – Prof. L. Ingaliso

A – Philosophy in Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century (1 ECTS): M. Mori, Storia della filosofia moderna, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2021, chapters 1-6, pp. 3-84.

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