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 two early modern philosophical texts.

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 two philosophical texts, 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

The students can actively participate in educational dialogue, enhancing the capacity for critical reflection on the development of their training path.

 

Lectures, readings, and commentaries of texts from two major philosophers’ works.

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.

B – Natural philosophy in the Sixteenth Century (2 ECTS): Giordano Bruno’s La cena delle ceneri (The Ash Wednesday Supper).

 

PART TWO – Prof. C. Giarratana

C – Philosophy in Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (2 ECTS): Hobbes – Spinoza –Locke – Leibniz –Vico – Hume – Kant – Fichte – Schelling – Hegel.

D – Philosophy and religion in the Eighteenth Century (1 ECTS): David Hume’s Natural History of Religion.

 

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.

B – Natural philosophy in the Sixteenth Century (2 ECTS): G. Bruno, La cena delle ceneri, in Id., Dialoghi filosofici italiani, Milano, Mondadori, 2000, pp. 5-131.

 

PART TWO – Prof. C. Giarratana

C – Philosophy in Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (2 ECTS): M. Mori, Storia della filosofia moderna, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2021, chapters 7-11, 13, 16-17, 19-20, pp. 86-150, 169-181, 220-265, 290-332.

D – Philosophy and religion in the Eighteenth Century (1 ECTS): D. Hume, Storia naturale della religione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2018, pp. 45-149.

 

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