PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

FS3121

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2019/2020

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, 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).
In the common module (MI) to the two paths, 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.
The second module (MAT1), reserved for students who have opted for the Philosophy path, will propose, first of all, an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, the figure and the work of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929). The same module will articulate, secondly, an analysis of the salient lines of its philosophical-religious proposal, supported by the reading and commentary of some key texts of the thinker.
The third module (MAT2), reserved for students who have opted for the path of Educational Sciences (L-19), will propose, first of all, an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, the figure and the work of Franz Rosenzweig. The same module will articulate, secondly, an analysis of the salient lines of its pedagogical-educational reflection, supported by the reading and commentary of some key texts of the thinker.

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
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. The question of interreligious dialogue will be addressed in the second teaching unit. Within this framework, a specific model of dialogue methodology between interlocutors belonging to different cultural and / or religious horizons will be proposed.
MAT1
Thematic in-depth module 1 (3 CFU), dedicated specifically to students who have opted for the Philosophy course (L-5).
Theme:
The "new thought" of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) between reason, revelation and interreligious dialogue.
Program:
The Module is divided into three teaching Units. In the first one an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, of the figure and of the thinker's work will be presented, on the broader background of the historical context in which he lived and worked.
In the second teaching unit, a reconstruction of the speculative proposal of the thinker will be provided, with particular reference to its more specifically philosophical-religious implications, based on the direct reading of some of his key texts.
In the third didactic unit we will analyze some significant results of the Jewish-Christian interreligious dialogue that took place in the ninety years following the death of the thinker.
MAT2
Thematic in-depth module 2 (3 CFU), specifically dedicated to students who have opted for the Education Sciences course (L-19).
Theme:
The educational project by Franz Rosenzweig and its implementation in the "Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus".
Program:
The Module is divided into two teaching Units. In the first one an overall reconstruction of the biographical-intellectual itinerary, of the figure and of the thinker's work will be presented, on the broader background of the historical context in which he lived and worked.
In the second teaching unit we will critically question the methodological and contentious provocation towards the Educational Sciences that comes from the speculative proposal of Rosenzweig and from the concrete didactic practice he implemented in the «Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus».

Recommended Bibliography

MI
1. F.P. Ciglia, Filosofia della religione. Una breve introduzione (Lecture notes).
2. F.P. Ciglia, Fra Atene e Gerusalemme. Il «nuovo pensiero» di Franz Rosenzweig, Marietti 1820, Genova-Milano 2009 (Philosophy students are required to prepare the following pages of the volume: 1-82 and 145-253; students of Education Science are required to prepare the following pages of the volume: 1-82 and 200-253, and, furthermore, a further «Study» of the book, freely chosen, among those not included in the pages just indicated).
MAT1
3. F. Rosenzweig, La Stella della Redenzione, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2005 (students are required to prepare: Parte Seconda: Introduzione, Libro Secondo and Libro Terzo; Parte Terza: Introduzione, Libro Primo and Libro Secondo).
4. AA.VV., Figli di Abramo. Il dialogo fra religioni cinquant’anni dopo «Nostra Aetate», a cura di G. Caponigro, Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2017 (students are required to prepare: Chapters 1-4; Appendix and furthermore two Chapters freely chosen).
MAT2
3. F. Rosenzweig, Ebraismo, Bildung e Filosofia della vita, a cura di G. Sola, Editrice La Giuntina, Firenze 2000.
4. P. Ricci Sindoni, Franz Rosenzweig. L’altro, il tempo e l’eterno, Edizioni Studium, Roma 2012.
Attendance at classes is an essential dimension of 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.

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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