ETHICS OF RELATIONS

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

SFI014

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

CIGLIA Francesco

Cycle:

Second 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 phase of the latter.

Objectives

On the basis of the basic skills already acquired during the three-year degree course, the teaching of the discipline aims, first of all, to provide students with a more solid and mature mastery of the critical-methodological, historical and theoretical tools that are necessary for the adequate setting and articulation of an in-depth philosophical reflection on human conduct and in particular on its relational dimensions. The same teaching also aims to provide students with the methodological and critical-philological resources necessary to face the direct reading and analysis of the capital texts of philosophical-moral reflection elaborated along the different phases of the Western tradition.

Contents

The course is divided into two modules: the Institutional Module (MI) of 4 CFUs and the Thematic in-depth Module (MAT) of 5 CFUs.
The Course will provide, in the first Module, an overall and panoramic reconstruction of the different phases and the different figures of the anthropological-philosophical and ethical-philosophical questioning that has been elaborated within the tradition, not only philosophical, of the Western civilisation. A very special attention will be devoted to the survey of the relational components that, in the context of the tradition in question, are thought of as constitutive of the human being and of his ethical action.
The second module is divided into three teaching units. The first will offer an understanding of man, of his relational ontological status and of his actions, which, theoretically, is articulated in the critical dialogue with the ethical-anthropological figures that have been presented and discussed in the first Module.
In the second didactic unit an overview of the Jewish-inspired philosophical reflection that developed during the twentieth century will be presented. Within the overview in question, the figure and work of Hans Jonas (1903-1993) will be contextualized.
In the third didactic unit we will proceed to a detailed analysis, with direct reading and critical commentary, of one of the major works of H. Jonas, namely, «The principle of responsibility» (1979).

Extended Syllabus

The course is divided into two modules: the institutional module (MI) of 4 CFU and the thematic study module, of 5 CFU.
ME
Institutional Form (4 CFU)
Theme:
Man and his acting.
Program:
The module aims to deepen and consolidate the first comprehensive introduction to the philosophical-moral issues that has already been provided within the three-year Degree.
First of all, it will provide a brief sketch of the overall disciplinary profile of the discipline called Philosophical Ethics or Moral Philosophy. The same module will offer, secondly, a brief overview of the different figures of man and his actions that have been elaborated gradually in the different eras of the tradition, not only philosophical, of the West.
MAT
Theme:
Between silence and word. The understanding of the relationship between God-man and man-man in the thought of André Neher (1914-1988).
Program:
The Module is divided into two teaching units. In the first one, an overall presentation of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, the figure and the work of A. Neher will be provided, against the background of the historical-cultural context in which he lived. In the second one, a critical reading and a commentary on the work of the thinker entitled "The Exile of the Word. From biblical silence to Auschwitz silence "(1970) will be proposed.
In particular, the relational value that the thinker attributes to the dynamic silence-word that exists in the relations between God and man and in inter-human relations will be discussed, both in the biblical perspective and in the perspective of the Shoah event.

Recommended Bibliography

MI (4 CFU)
1. F.P. Ciglia, L’uomo e il suo agire. Introduzione alla Filosofia morale (Lecture notes).
2. F.P. Ciglia, La riflessione morale nel pensiero antico e le sue figure principali
(Lecture notes).
MAT
3. F.P. Ciglia, La rosa e il perché. Per una fenomenologia del mistero, ETS, Pisa 2020.
4. AA.VV., Il pensiero ebraico nel Novecento, a cura di Adriano Fabris, Carocci Editore, Roma 2015 (students are required to prepare five chapters, freely chosen, of the First Part and three Chapters, freely chosen, from the Second Part of the volume).
5. H. Jonas, The imperative of Responsability: In Search of Ethics for the Technological Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Attendance to the course is an essential dimension of teaching and learning. Those who, for serious and justified 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. Da Re, Filosofia morale. Storia, teorie, argomenti, Pearson, Torino 2018.

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 integrated, if necessary, 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.
The mark will be expressed in thirtieths.

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

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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