MODERN HISTORY

The course is designed to integrate modules. 1) The first module (3 CFU) compares the theme of law as a social structure and expression of collective mentality in a comparative key. 2) The second module (3 CFU) is dedicated to the reflection on how the Age of Enlightenment with its peculiar Humanism - supported by the discovery of freedom but also the individual responsibility of man - has originally interpreted and transformed decisive aspects of the Scientific Revolution . In the seventeenth and seventeenth centuries, from Montaigne to Galilei, the scientific revolution affirmed the need to freely seek the truth about natural phenomena through adequate empirical evidence against ipse dixit. With the crisis of the "European conscience", then, rationalism allowed the transition from a concept of Reason, strictly thought of as the casket containing the first principles, to a Reason "method", that is as a way to derive inductive rules from reality. Thus all aspects of life were subjected to the critical scrutiny of Reason: politics and forms of state, social organization, human history, the structure of knowledge.

The course is designed to integrate modules. 1) The first module (3 CFU) compares the theme of law as a social structure and expression of collective mentality in a comparative key. 2) The second module (3 CFU) is dedicated to the reflection on how the Age of Enlightenment with its peculiar Humanism - supported by the discovery of freedom but also the individual responsibility of man - has originally interpreted and transformed decisive aspects of the Scientific Revolution . In the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, from Montaigne to Galilei, the scientific revolution affirmed the need to freely search the truth about natural phenomena through adequate empirical evidence against ipse dixit. With the crisis of the "European conscience", then, rationalism allowed the transition from a concept of Reason, strictly thought of as the casket containing the first principles, to a Reason "method", that is as a way to derive inductive rules from reality. Thus all aspects of life were subjected to the critical scrutiny of Reason: politics and forms of state, social organization, human history, the structure of knowledge.