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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
It is preferable, but not necessary, to have a basic knowledge of the history of Western philosophy.
Objectives
Contents The course intends to dwell in the first part on some fundamental elements of philosophical reflection on morals, following the lines of interpretation of a great thinker of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt.
Therefore, the question of the dignity of the person, a fundamental problem of moral philosophy, will be placed at the centre.
Extended Syllabus In the pages of Arendt, the result of lessons held by Arendt in the United States in the mid-sixties, there is the beginning of that reflection on the "banality of evil" complementary, but not opposed, to that on the "radicality of evil", developed in the years of the writing of "The origins of totalitarianism". Conceptual Index:
comprehensive propositions;
consciousness;
the obligation;
Decision reliability;
human being and person;
the possibility of doing evil.
- Spaemann: Three lessons on human dignity:
Uniqueness of the human being. The dignity of a person. The "dignity" of a death. Modernity and its disagreement with religious and moral tradition. Dignity as a non-biological quality of man, but as a foundation. Love as the foundation of knowledge.
Recommended Bibliography - H. Arendt, Alcune questioni di filosofia morale, Einaudi.
- R. Spaemann, Tre lezioni sulla dignità della vita umana, Lindau.
for further studies:
L. Alici, Filosofia morale, La Scuola
Methods of Provision
Teaching Methods The lessons will take place in a frontal way, with the possible help of slides or videos.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The learning will be verified through an oral exam expressed in thirtieths, which will be articulated through two/three questions regarding the different themes and books faced during the course.