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PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
A basic knowledge of the vocabulary of philosophy (that which may be obtained through the study of secondary school philosophy manuals) is assumed as a prerequisite.
Objectives Contents "Anthropological infinity". The unity and variety of the human genre.
Extended Syllabus The programme is divided into two modules structured as follows:
1st Module (4 cfu): the first part of the course will dwell on the origins of philosophical anthropology, on the object and scope of the discipline in the context of the various branches of applied anthropology. The thought and work of the founders of philosophical anthropology (Scheler, Plessner and Gehlen) will be examined in detail.
2nd Module (2 cfu): The second part of the course will dwell on the contribution which philosophy has offered to anthropology through some important concepts and in particular on F. Spagna's idea of "anthropological infinity", a fundamental key of interpretation in understanding the sense in which it is possible to speak of a unity in human diversity. Spagna's identification of the desire for infinity with an "anthropological sublime" well attested in different culturesl illustrates the contribution which philosophy can offer to anthropology.
Recommended Bibliography Ch. Taylor, "Sources of the Self: the Making of the Modern Identity", Harvard University Press, 1689.
F. Spagna, "L'infinito antropologico", Mimesis 2015 (English translation will be provided during the course).
Further reading:
M. Battista, "Philosophical Anthropology, Man: an Impossible Project?", Rome, Urbaniana University Press, 1991
M. Tomasello, "A Natural History of Human Morality", Harvard UP, 2016;
M. Tomasello, "The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition", Harvard UP 1999;
B. Shore, "Human Diversity and Human Nature: The Life and Times of a False Dichotomy", in N. Roughley ed., "Being Human", Berlin, Gruyter 2001.
Methods of Provision Teaching Methods lectures, exercises, seminars, teamwork.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Oral examination focusing on the programme contents. Marks are expressed in 30/30. Oral examination will represent 2/3 of the final mark; an individual or group project, in agreement with the indications given during the course, will be taken into consideration for the remaining third of the final mark.
Contacts/More Information The course programme is the same for students not attending the course, with the addition of one of the texts recommended as further reading (or part of it, if it exceeds 100 pp).
