HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- MATTEO VINCENZO D'ALFONSO
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- M-FIL/06
Training objectives
- The course for first-year students aims to provide an overview of a choice of philosophers, from ancient to modern times.
During the course, we will highlight the contribution that philosophical thought has made to the understanding that man has gradually produced of nature, of himself, and of society, and how this has progressively given rise to that specific tradition of thought that goes by the name of philosophy.
General and detailed training objectives:
- To acquire a basic knowledge of the fundamental moments of the history of philosophy and its link with the cultural, social, economic, and political contexts in which it develops;
- Acquire critical tools for understanding and analyzing philosophical texts;
- To acquire the ability to construct and communicate arguments related to the historical-philosophical concepts dealt with in the course.
In more detail, the training objectives pursued will be the following five:
1) Knowledge and comprehension. To know the different philosophical currents, from antiquity to the modern era, and the ways of teaching philosophy related to them.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. To address specific issues related to the history and teaching of philosophy, through the consideration of the centrality of the text and philosophical terminology and through the analysis of the most effective teaching tools for the teaching of philosophy.
3) The autonomy of judgment. Acquire critical and evaluative resources in the face of the different philosophical conceptions and problems peculiar to the teaching of philosophy, acquired through work on the text and philosophical terminology, as well as on reflection on the most recent results of philosophical historiography.
4) Communication skills. To broaden the philosophical vocabulary in relation to the themes dealt with and to increase the capacity to choose argumentative strategies according to the historical contexts and the different philosophical currents.
5) Ability to learn. To acquire the basic skills of the historical-philosophical discipline and of the didactics of philosophy useful for undertaking training courses for the teaching of philosophy in secondary school.
The authors who will be examined during the course are: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator Prerequisites
- No prerequisite required
Course programme
- The main theme of the course will be the different interpretations in the history of Western philosophical thought of the concept of "I" and "soul", from the ancient world to the contemporary. Starting from the different terms with which philosophers have named this concept over time - soul, consciousness, mind - and from the different, we will offer an overview of the most important thinkers of the philosophical tradition from the reading of their texts in class.
In particular, we will examine in depth the didactic methodologies used in the philosophical field. Through targeted examples, starting from the reading of the texts, specific terminology, methods and techniques are illustrated, aimed at a participatory educational and formative planning, attentive to the interconnections between philosophy and the human, natural and social sciences. The lessons will also address topics such as the role of the teacher of the discipline, the activity of educational planning
The authors who will be examined during the course are: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Putnam Didactic methods
- The course will be divided into 60 hours of lessons, made up of frontal lessons held by two different teachers, 54 hours mainly dedicated to historical-philosophical contents, and 6 hours specifically dedicated to reviewing the contents under a thematical perspective from the point of view of contemporary philosophy (H. Putnam). During the course, you will read and comment on excerpts of the authors.
Learning assessment procedures
- Two written tests in progress; oral examination in the remaining appeals.
During the course, there will be two intermediate written tests - the first on the program from Socrates to Thomas and the second on that from Descartes to Kant - as an ongoing verification of the preparation of the parts being treated.
The written examination consists of a test with closed and open questions related to the topics carried out in the two parts of the course.
The written tests will be held ONLY during the course on the two dates indicated.
All other appeals will be EXCLUSIVELY oral.
If one of the written tests are not passed, the missing part will have to be be taken orally. Reference texts
- The philosophers will have to be studied from the TEXTS read and commented in class and with the support, for their general framework of the HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY for high schools:
Abbagnano/Fornero, LA RICERCA DEL PENSIERO, ed. PARAVIA, relatively to:
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant.
FROM THE END OF SEPTEMBER, at the Voltalacarta copy-shop in via Voltapaletto (Ferrara) there will be two DISPENSES.
