PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

FS3121

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2020/2021

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 modern and 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, ethno-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, each of three CFUs. The first module (Institutional Module: MI) is reserved for students of both paths (L-5: Philosophy and L-19: Education Sciences). The other two Modules, (Thematic in-depth Module 1: MAT1; and Thematic in-depth Module 2: MAT2), are reserved, respectively, the first, to the students of the Philosophy path (L-5), the second, to the students of the path Educational Sciences (L-19).
The module common to the two courses (MI) is divided into two distinct didactic units, but closely connected.
In the first didactic unit 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.
In the second teaching unit, the broader theoretical horizon will be explained within which the understanding of the discipline that was proposed in the first teaching unit will be contextualized. The theoretical horizon in question will be summarized in the formula: "phenomenology of mystery".
The second Module (MAT1), reserved for students who have opted for the Philosophy course, is also divided into two teaching units.
In the first, an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, of the figure and work of the philosopher of religion Bernhard Welte (1906-1983) will be proposed.
The overall presentation of the thinker will be followed, in the second teaching unit of the same module, by direct reading, with detailed commentary, of the thinker's major philosophical-religious work, entitled, in its original version: "Religionsphilosophie" (Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1978).
The third module (MAT2), dedicated to students who have opted for the Educational Science course, will also be divided into two teaching units.
The first unit will examine the reflection on universal history which was elaborated by the Jewish-German thinker F. Rosenzweig (1886-1929) during the years of the First World War.
In the second teaching unit, the reflection of the political scientist S. Ph. Huntington (1927-2008) on the new world order that is determined by the end of the so-called "Cold War", starting from the early nineties of the last century, will be presented.
The educational offer provided by the course totals 9 credits. Students on each of the two courses are required to acquire only 6.

Extended Syllabus

The course is divided into three modules, 3 CFU each: the institutional module (MI), reserved for all students, both those who have opted for the Philosophy course (L-5), and those who have opted for the course of Educational Sciences (L-19); the first thematic in-depth module (MAT1), specifically reserved for students who have opted for the Philosophy course (L-5); the second in-depth thematic module (MAT2), specifically reserved for students who have opted for the Educational Sciences course (L-19).
ME
Institutional module (3 CFU), reserved for all students, both those who have opted for the Philosophy course (L-5), and those who have opted for the Educational Sciences course (L-19).
Theme:
Philosophy of religion and interreligious dialogue in the perspective of a phenomenology of mystery
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, contents, methods, objectives and historical genesis of it. In this context, the issue of interreligious dialogue will be addressed and a specific model of dialogue methodology will be proposed between interlocutors belonging to different cultural and / or religious horizons.
In the second didactic unit the salient lines of a speculative proposal called: "phenomenology of mystery" will be proposed. It explains the broader theoretical framework within which the understanding of the Philosophy of religion which was presented in the first teaching unit of the Module is contextualized.
MAT1
Thematic in-depth module 1 (3 CFU), dedicated specifically to students who have opted for the Philosophy course (L-5).
Theme:
The philosophical-religious proposal of Bernhard Welte (1906-1983)

Program:
The module is divided into two teaching units. The first will present an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, of the figure and work of the thinker, against the broader background of the historical context in which he lived and worked.
Then, in the second didactic unit, we will pass to an analytical reading, with explanation and comment, of "Religionsphilosophie" (1978), the work in which the thinker summarized in a more systematic and complete way the fundamental lines of his philosophical reflection on religion.
MAT2
Thematic in-depth module 2 (3 CFU), specifically dedicated to students who have opted for the Education Sciences course (L-19).
Theme:
Conflict and dialogue between religions and civilizations in today's globalized cultural universe.
Program:
The module, also divided into two teaching units, aims to compare the singular geo-political meditation of two intellectuals profoundly different in cultural formation and in areas of specialization, lived in two different phases of our contemporary age.
In the first unit, in fact, the reflection on universal history that was elaborated by the Jewish-German thinker F. Rosenzweig (1886-1929) during the years of the First World War will be examined. The reflection in question succeeds in capturing, with certain forerunner intuition, the first traits of that overall phenomenon of globalization that will be developing and accentuating progressively throughout the entire course of the twentieth century, and up to the present day.
In the second teaching unit, the reflection of the political scientist S. Ph. Huntington (1927-2008) on the new world order that is determined by the end of the so-called "Cold War" starting from the early nineties of the last century will be presented.
In the context of the meditation of both authors, the theme "religion" undoubtedly plays a leading role.

Recommended Bibliography

MI
1. F.P. Ciglia, Filosofia della religione e dialogo interreligioso (Lecture notes).
2. F.P. Ciglia, La rosa e il perché. Per una fenomenologia del mistero, ETS, Pisa 2020.
MAT1
3. B. Welte, Dal nulla al mistero assoluto. Trattato di Filosofia della religione, Marietti, Genova 1985.
4. Oreste Tolone, Bernhard Welte. Filosofia della religione per non-credenti, Morcelliana, Brescia 2006.
MAT2
3. F. Rosenzweig, Globus. Per una teoria storico-universale dello spazio, a cura di F.P. Ciglia, trad. it. di S. Carretti, Marietti 1820, Genova–Milano 2007.
Ebraismo, Bildung e Filosofia della vita, a cura di G. Sola, Editrice La Giuntina, Firenze 2000.
4. 5. S.Ph. Huntington, Lo scontro delle civiltà e il nuovo ordine mondiale. Il futuro geopolitico del pianeta, trad. it. di S. Minucci, Garzanti, Milano 2000.
Attendance at classes is an essential dimension of the 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.
If Health Laws and University regulations allow, teaching activities may take place online (in whole or in part). For any further information and updates, please refer to the University website.

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.
The mark will be expressed in thirtieths.
If Health Laws and University regulations allow, exams may take place online (in whole or in part). For any further information and updates, please refer to the University website.

Contacts/More Information

Student Reception.
During the teaching semesters (October-December and March-May) students will be received on the following days and hours: Tuesday 10-11 am; Wednesday 11-13. During the periods of suspension of the didactic activity the students will be received every Wednesday, at 11-13. To confer with the professor it is advisable to make an appointment in advance using the following email address: francesco.ciglia@unich.it
If Health Laws and University regulations allow, teachers office hours’ may take place online (in whole or in part). For any further information and updates, please refer to the University website.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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