HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year - Curriculum Educatore sociale di comunita'
Teaching Staff: Salvatore VASTA
Credit Value: 10
Taught classes: 60 hours
Term / Semester:

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

  1. Philosophical and Scientific Thought in the Sixteenth Century: Bruno and Campanella
  2. Philosophical and scientific thought in the seventeenth century: Galilei, Bacon, Descartes
  3. Rationalism and religion in the seventeenth century: Spinoza
  4. English empiricism: Locke and Hume
  5. The French Enlightenment: Voltaire and Rousseau
  6. The German Enlightenment and Kant
  7. 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).