History of philosophy
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
CORRADO GIARRATANA
Expected Learning Outcomes
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.
The students can actively participate in educational dialogue, enhancing
the capacity for critical reflection on the development of their training path.
Course Structure
Lectures, readings, and commentaries of the text from a major
philosopher’s works.
Required Prerequisites
No prerequisites required.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory
Detailed Course Content
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.
C – Philosophy and religion in the Eighteenth Century (2 ECTS):
David Hume’s Natural History of Religion.
Textbook Information
PART TWO – Prof. C. Giarratana
B
– Philosophy in Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (3 ECTS): M. Mori, Storia della filosofia moderna, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2021, chapters
7-20, pp. 86-332.
C – Philosophy and religion in the Eighteenth Century (2 ECTS): D. Hume, Storia naturale della religione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2018, pp. 1-149.
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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