Modern Ethics

Starting from the reflection on the crisis of European conscience, the course offers knowledge and ethical skills on the nature of man, his condition, his identity and his cultural belonging, and provides, through the reading of classics of philosophical thought, a specific framework of issues related to the concept of person, religiosity and freedom.

Dublin’s descriptors framework: 1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

B. Croce, Storia d’Europa nel secolo decimonono, Bari, Laterza, 1948, solamente i capitoli: La religione della libertà; e Le fedi religiose opposte, pp. 4-42.

B. Croce, La storia come pensiero e come azione, Bari, Laterza, 1943, solamente i capitoli: L’attività morale; La storia come storia della libertà; e Religiosità e religione, pp. 42-50; pp. 247-253.

R. Guardini, La fine dell’epoca moderna, Il potere, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2004, pp. 11-109.

R. Guardini, Lettere dal lago di Como. La tecnica e l’uomo, Brescia, Morcelliana, 1993, 111 p.

R. Guardini, Mondo e Persona, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2000, pp. 25-194.

G. Pezzino, La fondazione dell’etica in Benedetto Croce, Catania, CUECM, 2008, pp. 341-428.

C. Calì, Fede e moralità in Benedetto Croce, Roma, Studium, 2023, 145 p.

F. P. Leonardi, Romano Guardini tra etica e antropologia cristiana, in “Quaderni Leif”, n. 21 (2022), pp. 25-51.

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