HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year - Curriculum Educatore sociale di comunita'
Teaching Staff: Salvatore VASTA
Credit Value: 10
Scientific field: M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Taught classes: 60 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 10
Scientific field: M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Taught classes: 60 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
The course aims to enable students to acquire:
1. The categories and models of investigation in use in the discipline, through the knowledge of the most relevant issues dealt with in modern philosophy;
2. The strengthening of personal critical capacities, through the historical-problematic contextualisation of the doctrines of the philosophers under study;
3. The strengthening of logical, argumentative and judgmental skills using philosophical concepts and a relevant use of philosophical vocabulary.
Course Structure
- Philosophical and Scientific Thought in the Sixteenth Century: Bruno and Campanella
- Philosophical and scientific thought in the seventeenth century: Galilei, Bacon, Descartes
- Rationalism and religion in the seventeenth century: Spinoza
- English empiricism: Locke and Hume
- The French Enlightenment: Voltaire and Rousseau
- The German Enlightenment and Kant
- Idealism and Hegel
Detailed Course Content
| 1 | Philosophical and scientific thought in the sixteenth century | Mori § 2.1, 2.2 |
| 2 | Giordano Bruno: The philosophy of nature and morality | Mori § 2.6, 2.7 http://www.raiscuola.rai.it/articoli-programma-puntate/zettel-presenta-michele-ciliberto-giordano-bruno-e-la-filosofia-del-rinascimento/31550/default.aspx |
| 3 | Tommaso Campanella: physics and metaphysics; religion, pedagogy and politics | Mori § 2.8, 2.9, 2.10 |
| 4 | Philosophical and Scientific Thought in the Seventeenth Century | Mori § 4.1, 4.2 |
| 5 | Galileo Galilei: Science, religion and the experimental method | Mori § 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 |
| 6 | Bacon: The method of science | Mori § 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14 |
| 7 | Descartes: The new conception of Reason and the Method | Mori § 5.1, 5.2, 5.3. http://www.raiscuola.rai.it/articoli-programma-puntate/zettel-presenta-maurizio-ferraris-cartesio-e-la-nascita-della-filosofia-moderna/32314/default.aspx |
| 8 | Descartes: Discourse on the Method | Descartes, First and second part |
| 9 | Descartes: Discourse on the Method | Descartes, Third and Fourth part |
| 10 | Descartes: Discourse on the Method | Descartes, Fifth and Sixth part |
| 11 | Descartes: Doubt, the existence of God | Mori § 5.4, 5.5 |
| 12 | Descartes: The mind / body dualism | Mori § 5.6, 5.7, 5.8., 5.9 |
| 13 | Rationalism and religion in the seventeenth century: Introduction to Spinoza | Mori § 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 |
| 14 | Spinoza: God and the question of ``substance '' | Mori § 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 |
| 15 | Spinoza: morality and religion | Mori § 8.7, 8.8, 8.9 |
| 16 | English empiricism: Locke and the question of knowledge | Mori § 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 |
| 17 | Locke - the foundations of knowledge: Ideas and language | Mori § 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9 |
| 18 | Hume: Knowledge and experience | Mori § da 13.1 a 13.6 |
| 19 | Hume: Morals, politics and religion | Mori § da 13.7, 13.8, 13.9 |
| 20 | The French Enlightenment: Voltaire and Rousseau | Mori § 14.1, 14.3, 14.4, 14.10, 14.11, 14.12, 14.13 http://www.raiscuola.rai.it/articoli-programma-puntate/zettel-presenta-voltaire-e-il-nuovo-sapere-–-andrea-tagliapietra/32743/default.aspx |
| 21 | German Enlightenment and Kant | Mori § 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4 http://www.raiscuola.rai.it/articoli-programma-puntate/zettel-presenta-maurizio-ferraris-kant-e-lilluminismo/31677/default.aspx |
| 22 | Kant: The Critique of pure reason - structure and content | Mori § 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, 16.8, 16.9 |
| 23 | Kant: Critique of practical reason: imperatives and moral laws | Mori § 16.10, 16.11 |
| 24 | Kant: Critique of judgment; Nature and the concept of beauty | Mori § 16.12 |
| 25 | German Romanticism and Idealism | Mori § 18.1, 18.2, 18.8 |
| 26 | Hegel: the intellectual biography | Mori § 20.1, 20.2, 20.3 |
| 27 | Hegel: the Dialectic and phenomenology of the Spirit | Mori § 20.4, 20.5, 20.6 |
| 28 | Hegel: The System and the philosophy of History | |
Textbook Information
1) Massimo Mori, Storia della filosofia moderna, Laterza, Roma- Bari 2005 (ed. digitale 2015).
2) René Descartes, Meditazioni metafisiche (trad. e intr. si Sergio Landucci), Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2021 (collana economica).
(English editions of these text are available for Erasmus sudents).