PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

FS3121

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

CIGLIA Francesco

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

102

Prerequisites:

Access to the course does not presuppose any institutional prerequisites.
In order to optimize the use of the training offered in the course, however, it is necessary to provide manual information of adequate size and good quality on the different phases, on the different currents, and on the most relevant figures in the history of Western philosophy, with particular attention to the contemporary developments of the latter.

Objectives

The teaching of the discipline aims to provide the basic methodological, historical and theoretical tools for the setting and articulation of a philosophical question on religious phenomena of the past and present.
First of all, it proposes to clarify the specificity of the philosophical approach to religious phenomena, distinguishing it from other types of approach (historical, phenomenological, anthropological, sociological, psychological, pedagogical), not without, however, envisaging, at the same time, a fruitful dialogic synergy with each of them.
Secondly, the teaching proposes to articulate a critical investigation on the specific place of origin and placement of religious phenomena within the human universe, on their essential profile, on their pretense of meaning, on the legitimacy and their eventual degeneration.
Thirdly, the teaching proposes to provide a specific study of some important philosophical understandings of religious phenomena that tradition has left us as an inheritance.
On the basis of the instrumentation provided, the teaching proposes, finally, to provide incentives for the promotion of those attitudes to interreligious dialogue and dialogue between religious perspectives and non-religious perspectives that seem particularly precious and urgent in the composite and varied multicultural horizon today.

Contents

The course is divided into three modules, three CFU each. The first module (Institutional Module: MI) is common to students of both paths (L-5 and L-19). The other two modules, (Thematic in-depth Module 1: MAT1; and Thematic in-depth Module 2: MAT2), are dedicated, respectively, to the students of the Philosophy path (L-5), the other, to the students. students of the path of Educational Sciences (L-19).
In the common module (MI) to the two paths (L-5 and L-19), students will be given a first general introduction, of an institutional nature, to the discipline. Particular attention will be given to the question, today of burning current relevance, of interreligious dialogue. In this context, the concrete proposal of a specific methodology of interreligious dialogue will be inserted.
The second module (MAT1), dedicated to the students who opted for the Philosophy path (L-5), will propose, first of all, an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, the figure and the work of Martin Buber (1878-1965). The same module will articulate, secondly, an analysis of the salient lines of its philosophical-religious proposal, supported by the reading and commentary of some key texts of the thinker.
The third module (MAT2), dedicated to students who have opted for the path of Educational Sciences (L-19), will propose, first of all, an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, the figure and the work of Martin Buber. Secondly, the same module will articulate an analysis of the salient lines of its pedagogical-educational reflection, supported by the reading and commentary of some key texts of the thinker.
The course therefore provides a total of 9 credits. Students of each of the two paths are required to acquire only 6.

Extended Syllabus

The course is divided into three modules, of 3 CFU each: the institutional module (MI), reserved for all students, both those who have opted for the path of Philosophy (L-5), and those who have opted for the path of Educational Sciences (L-19); the first thematic study module (MAT1), specifically dedicated to students who have opted for the Philosophy path (L-5); the second thematic study module (MAT2), specifically dedicated to students who have opted for the path of Educational Sciences (L-19).
MI
Institutional module (3 CFU), reserved for all students, both those who have opted for the path of Philosophy (L-5), and those who have opted for the path of Educational Sciences (L-19).
Theme:
Philosophy of religion and interreligious dialogue
Program
The institutional module aims to provide a first introduction to the philosophy of religion. It will be divided into two teaching units. In the first, an overall disciplinary profile of the discipline will be provided, with a particular reference to the object, the contents, the methods, the objectives and the historical genesis of it. The question of interreligious dialogue will be addressed in the second teaching unit. Within this framework a specific model of methodology of dialogue between interlocutors belonging to different cultural and / or religious horizons will be proposed.
MAT1
Thematic deepening module 1 (3 CFU), specifically dedicated to students who have opted for the Philosophy path (L-5).
Theme:
Philosophy and religion in the thought of Martin Buber (1878-1965). Program:
The module is divided into two teaching units. The first will present an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, the figure and the work of the thinker, on the broader background of the historical context in which he lived and worked.
In the second teaching unit, a reconstruction of the speculative proposal of the thinker will be provided, with particular reference to its more specifically philosophical-religious implications, based on the direct reading of some of its key texts.
MAT2
Thematic deepening module 2 (3 CFU), specifically dedicated to students who have opted for the path of Educational Sciences (L-19).
Theme:
Philosophy, religion and education in the thought of M. Buber.
Program:
The module is divided into two teaching units. The first will present an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, the figure and the work of the thinker, on the broader background of the historical context in which he lived and worked.
In the second Teaching Unit we will critically ask ourselves about the methodological and content provocation towards the Educational Sciences, which is based on the background of the philosopher of the thinker.

Recommended Bibliography

MI
1. F.P. Ciglia, Filosofia della religione. Una breve introduzione (Lecture notes).
2. F.P. Ciglia, Fra Atene e Gerusalemme. Il «nuovo pensiero» di Franz Rosenzweig, Marietti 1820, Genova-Milano 2009 (the students of Philosophy are required to bring the following pages of the volume: 1-82; 145-253; the students of Educational Sciences are required to bring the following pages of the volume: 1-82, 200-253 and, furthermore, a further "Studio" of the volume, free choice, among those not included in the pages just mentioned).
MAT1
3. M. Buber, L'eclissi di Dio. Considerazioni sul rapporto tra religione e filosofia, a cura di U. Schnabel, Passigli, Bagno a Ripoli (Firenze) 2001.
4. AA.VV., Il pensiero ebraico del Novecento, a cura di Adriano Fabris, Carocci, Roma 2015 (students are required to bring pp. 1-22, 54-98, and also six other chapters, free choice, of the volume, not included in the pages just mentioned).
MAT2
3. M. Buber, Discorsi sull'educazione, a cura di A. Aluffi Pentini, Armando, Roma 2018.
4. G. Milan, Educare all'incontro. La pedagogia di Martin Buber, Città Nuova, Roma 2000.
Attendance to the course is an essential dimension of teaching and learning. The students of both paths, who, for serious and well-founded reasons, did not have the possibility to attend the lessons, will have to integrate their preparation with the study of the following additional text:
5. A. Fabris, Filosofia delle religioni, Carocci, Roma 2012.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodology is developed in the following series of types:
1) frontal lesson, of a synthetic nature, aimed at the reconstruction of historical periods, of strands of thought, of specific themes and problems, and of relevant figures of individual thinkers;
2) direct reading, explanation and critical-philological analysis, in seminar mode, of author texts;
3) guided debate in the classroom on the various topics touched upon.
The main teaching activity will be supplemented by study seminars carried out in collaboration with other Faculties and / or with the participation of external scholars.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final exam consists in an oral presentation.
The exam will tend to probe the level of critical metabolization of the methodologies and contents proposed in the course and also, possibly, the ability to reprocess them in a personal key.

Contacts/More Information

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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