MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

FS3136

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PEROLI Enrico

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

153

Prerequisites:

No specific knowledge or skills are required. There are no constraints of propaedeuticity.

Objectives

The course contributes to the wider educational objective of the CdS by providing the appropriate historical and conceptual tools for understanding the fundamental themes and authors of the Western ethical tradition. The course also introduces students to the reading of some fundamental texts of this tradition, providing the essential tools for their analysis, and their historical contextualization, for framing the salient issues addressed in them and for their critical discussion. In this way, at the end of the course, the students will acquire (1) the fundamental knowledge relative to the different moral doctrines; (2) they will develop their own capacity of understanding; (3) they will develop the necessary skills to orient themself within the debates characterizing contemporary moral philosophy in the context of the different "applied ethics" (nature and environment, bioethics, technoscience, information and communication, economy and work, multiculturalism, etc.).

Contents

History of moral doctrines: authors and currents of Western ethics. The ethics of Aristotle

Extended Syllabus

The course covers the following topics, aimed at achieving the expected learning outcomes. First part. Ancient ethics: the Homeric virtues; the ethics of the polis and Socrates. The good life: Plato and Aristotle. Happiness and virtue: the Hellenistic schools. Neoplatonism. Medieval ethics from Augustine to Duns Scotus. Modern ethics: from Descartes to Hume. Kant, Fichte and Hegel. Kierkegaard and Nietsche. Utilitarianism.

The assessment of the training objectives and expected learning outcomes is made through an interview of variable duration, during which the actual acquisition of the knowledge, skills and competences indicated will be examined. The test is divided into questions concerning the history of moral doctrines addressed in the first part of the course and the analysis of texts explained and commented by the teacher in the second part of the course. The evaluation is expressed in thirtieths. The minimum mark for passing the exam is eighteen. The exam can also be taken in English

The ethics of the twentieth century: Weber, Moore, Scheler, Hare and Emotivism, Habermas, Jonas, MacIntyr

Recommended Bibliography

First Part: A. MacIntyre, After Virtue. A study in Moral Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Press 1984. A. Da Re, Filosofia Morale, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2003. Michael Sandel, Justice, Harvard 2009,
Second Part. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, books I, II, III, VI, VIII and IX. C. Natali, Il Metodo e il trattato. Saggio sull'Etica Nicomachea, Roma 2017. E. Peroli, Il bene dell'altro. Il ruolo della philia nell'Etica di Aristotele, in: L. Alici (ed.), Forme della reciprocità, Bologna, Il Mulino 2004, pp. 79-122.
Recommended readings:
Ch. Horn, L'arte della vita nell'antichità, Roma, Carocci 2004. M. Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness, Cambridge 1986. R. Spaemann, Felicità e benevolenza, Milano, Vita e Pensiero 1998. E. Berti, Guida ad Aristotele, Rom

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal Lessons and Seminars

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The assessment of the training objectives and expected learning outcomes is made through an interview of variable duration, during which the actual acquisition of the knowledge, skills and competences indicated will be examined. The test is divided into questions concerning the history of moral doctrines addressed in the first part of the course and the analysis of texts explained and commented by the teacher in the second part of the course. The evaluation is expressed in thirtieths. The minimum mark for passing the exam is eighteen. The exam can also be taken in English

Contacts/More Information

Course attendance is not mandatory. However, given the didactic- methodological approach (largely centred on reading, explaining and commenting on texts) and the nature of the examination programme, it should be noted that continuous attendance is a preferential (and sometimes indispensable) condition for effective individual study and preparation of the examination interview. Students who are unable to attend the course to the extent of at least two thirds, have the obligation to add at least one of the recommended readings (listed among the reference texts), freely chosen on the basis of any interests curricular. The teacher can always be reached at the following address: peroli.enrico@gmail.com. The reception can also be done in

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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