Modern Ethics
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher:
MARIA VITA ROMEO
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, the module provides ethical
knowledge and understanding of human nature, its condition, its identity and
cultural affinity. The module provides, through reading of anthropological and
philosophical classics, a description of the issues related to the concept of
difference, multiculturalism and cultural pluralism, and geared toward
fostering integration, social cohesion and intercultural enrichment.
Course Structure
Lectures with analysis and discussion of some of the topics reported in
the syllabus; tutorials on a selection of topics. Guest lectures by experts in
the field of ethics.
Required Prerequisites
Knowledge of philosophical thought and mastery of basic ethics issues.
Attendance of Lessons
Lectures and discussion on the topics of the course
Detailed Course Content
The module covers the following topics. The method of the ethics of
human conditions, in particular ethics of care related to other philosophical
disciplines and natural and human sciences. The concept of difference as a
reflection on the human identity and its relations with even non-human beings.
The aim is to identify the risk of creating an enemy with the intent to protect
an identity unable to offer an authentic ethical recognition. It follows a
reflection on the concept of care as a philosophical category to re-think of
human behaviour as complex and multidirectional.
Textbook Information
E. Levinas, Totalità e infinito. Saggio sull’esteriorità, Milano, Jaca
Book, 2019, (300 p.).
M. Buber, Il principio dialogico ed altri saggi, Milano, San Paolo,
2014, (336 p.).
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Papa, Tu sei il mio nemico, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2013 (pp. 73-176).
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Pessina (a cura di) Vulnus. Persone nella pandemia,
Milano, Mimesis, 2021, (170 p.)
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Conversation on the texts.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
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