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Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

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The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

1° Year

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One course to be chosen among the following
Foreign language B1 (CB Test)
6
E
-

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2017/2018

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
B
M-FIL/02
One course to be chosen among the following
One course to be chosen among the following
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
M-PSI/06

3° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One/two courses to be chosen among the following
6
C
M-PSI/06
Prova finale
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One course to be chosen among the following
Foreign language B1 (CB Test)
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Stage or Laboratories
6
F
-

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Teaching code

4S01368

Coordinator

Guido Cusinato

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. IIB dal Apr 23, 2018 al Jun 9, 2018.

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at a phenomenological inquiry on the possibility and the meaning of the religious experience after Nietzsche’s announcement of the “death of God”. Bearing in mind what “Horizon 2020” wishes for the European constitution of inclusive, innovative and reflective societies, the topic of religious experience will be addressed in the perspective of an interreligious dialogue, in order for it to become the starting point for the overall transcultural relations.

Participants are invited to wonder about their image (or non-image) of the divine and, based on their experience and their interests, to assess critically some reference texts in order write a short well-reasoned summary of some parts of them.
At the end of the course, students will have to prove: their adequate knowledge of the texts; critical assessment; to know how to communicate their knowledge in a clear, coherent and well-supported way; to know how to interact in the discussions with the professor and the other students.


Program

Subject of the course: A minimalist conception of the divine.
What God is dead in Nietzsche’s announcement? Is it possible to still speak of “holy” after it? What kind of “holy” would that be? Does it invite to transcend the world or the back sun of egocentricity? Is an “empirical holy” possible, i.e. something of which we could have a concrete experience? In which connection would it be with fetishism? Would the experience of this kind of “holy” be limited to the religious believer?



TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS
Frontal lessons and discussions on the papers written by the participants.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
R. Scruton Il volto di Dio 2012
P. Berger I molti altari della modernità. Le religioni al tempo del pluralismo 2017
P. Sequieri La cruna dell’ego. Uscire dal monoteismo del sé 2017
F. Lenoir Le metamorfosi di Dio 2005
S. Petrosino L’idolo. Teoria di una tentazione dalla Bibbia a Lacan 2015
G. Cusinato Max Scheler. Il Dio in divenire. Edizioni Messaggero Padova 2002 scaricabile dal seguente link: https://www.academia.edu/3367922/Il_Dio_in_divenire._Il_problema_del_sacro_in_Max_Scheler_2002_
E. Falque Metamorfosi della finitezza. Saggio sulla nascita e la resurrezione San Paolo 2014
D. Bonhoeffer Resistenza e resa San Paolo 2015

Examination Methods

For attending students:
A personalized program will be set together at the beginning of the course.For non-attending students:
The exam is in oral form and aims at verifying the adequate knowledge of the scheduled texts. In order to access the oral examination, students must submit a paper of 20000 characters. The paper must be previously agreed on with the professor during his office hours – after students have read the texts – and is to be submitted at least 7 days before the exam. The paper must be submitted via email, with a .doc document containing the student’s name, surname and identification number.

The paper should be thought as a well-reasoned summary of the sections of the scheduled texts that have raised the student’s interest, but it does not exonerate her to study the remaining parts as well. Specific attention should be payed to the pertinence and the precision in quoting. The paper is to be concluded with a short critical consideration of a couple of pages.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE