PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERSON

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

SFI333

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2022/2023

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:

PEROLI Enrico

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

102

Prerequisites:

No prerequisites

Objectives

The course contributes to the broader educational objective of the CdS by providing the historical and conceptual tools suitable for understanding the basic themes of the Philosphical Anthropology. The course also introduces students to the reading of some fundamental texts of this discipline, providing the essential tools for their analysis, and their historical contextualization, for the framing of the main themes dealt with in them and for their critical discussion. In this way, at the end of the course the student will acquire (1) the basic knowledge related to the Philosphical Anthropolgy (2) he/her will develop the necessary competences, in terms of autonomy of judgment and specific communication skills, which will allow him/her to orient himself, in a conscious and critical way, in the debates that characterize it.

Contents

The Making of Personal Identity in the Philosophical Tradition

Extended Syllabus

Course topics. In the first part, the course will present and discuss some basic models of the construction of subjective identity in the philosophical tradition, from the Ancient (Plato, Aristotle), Hellenistic (Stoicism) and Late antiquity Philosophy (Neoplatonism and Augustine) to the modern age (Descartes, Locke ). In the second part, the course will focus, in particular, on the anthropology of humanism, introducing to the reading and analysis of some basic texts by Nhicolas of Cusa (De docta ignorantia, De coniecturis, De mente, De Beryllo), the most important thinker of the fifteenth century.

Recommended Bibliography

First Part:
A)
Ch. Taylor, Sources of the Self, Cambridge 1992;
E. Peroli, Essere persona, Morcelliana 2007; E. Peroli-V. Melchiorre-M. Moschini, Philosophy of Human Person, Peter Lang 2019
B)
-Agustinus, Confessisones, Book X.
-Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy;E. Scribano, Guida alla Lettura delle Meditazioni Metafisiche di Descartes, Laterza, pp. 20-83, 97-117.
-J. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, second Book, chap. XXVII. A. Allegra, Dopo l'anima. Locke e la discussione sull'identità personale alle origini del pensiero moderno, Roma 2005, pp. 9-99 Second Part:
R. Ebgi (ed.), Umanisti italiani. Pensiero e destino, Einaudi, Torino 2016;
C. Vasoli, Le filosofie del Rinascimento, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2002;
E. Peroli, Niccolò Cusano, Carocci, Roma 2018
Niccolò Cusano, Opere filosofiche, teologiche e matematiche, ed. by Enrico Peroli, Bompiani, Milano 2017.
K.H. Volkmann-Schluck, Nicolò Cusano, La filosofia nel trapasso dal Medioevo all'età moderna, Morcelliana, Brescia 2002.
H. Blumenberg, La legittimità dell'età moderna, Marietti, Genova 1992
K. Flasch, Niccolò Cusano, Aragno, Torino 2010.
E. Cassirer, Individuo e cosmo nella filosofia del Rinascimento, Torino, Bollati-Boringhieri 2012
E. Cassirer, Storia della Filosofia moderna, Torino, Einaudi, vol. I, pp. 39- 85.
W. Beierwaltes, Identità e differenza, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, pp. 145- 207.
K. Jaspers, Cusano, in:. I grandi filosofi, Milano, Longanesi 1984, pp. 845- 1036.
During the lessons further bibliographic material will be indicated both in Italian and in English.
Italian
The Making of Personal Identity in the Philosophical Tradition

The course contributes to the broader educational objective of the CdS by providing the historical and conceptual tools suitable for understanding the basic themes of the Philosphical Anthropology. The course also introduces students to the reading of some fundamental texts of this discipline, providing the essential tools for their analysis, and their historical contextualization, for the framing of the main themes dealt with in them and for their critical discussion. In this way, at the end of the course the student will acquire (1) the basic knowledge related to the Philosphical Anthropolgy (2) he/her will develop the necessary competences, in terms of autonomy of judgment and specific communication skills, which will allow him/her to orient himself, in a conscious and critical way, in the debates that characterize it.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal lectures

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

An oral exam of variable duration will take place, during which knowledge, skills and competences will be tested, in oder to assess the achievement of the learning objectives and expected outcomes. The exam will consist of questions on course contents, and of a critical-textual analysis.
The exam can also be taken in English.

Contacts/More Information

Although not mandatory, class attendance is strongly advised. Students who do not attend at least 70% of the lectures will be asked to read an additional book. During the lessons further bibliographic material will be indicated both in Italian and in English. For any further information and thesis acceptance procedure: peroli.enrico@gmail.com.
The reception can also be done in English language.

An oral exam of variable duration will take place, during which knowledge, skills and competences will be tested, in oder to assess the achievement of the learning objectives and expected outcomes. The exam will consist of questions on course contents, and of a critical-textual analysis.
The exam can also be taken in English.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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