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Study Plan
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Master's degree in Philosophy - Enrollment from 2025/2026The 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.
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020
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Ethics of Relation (2018/2019)
Teaching code
4S007338
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-FIL/03 - MORAL PHILOSOPHY
Period
Sem. 2B dal Apr 8, 2019 al Jun 1, 2019.
Learning outcomes
The course is aimed to understand the ethical relationship particularly referring to Communication Ethics and to the rational grounding of Ethics. At the end of the course, the student will have to demonstrate knowledge and skills referring to challenging texts and to their interpretation and also to be able to open a wide reflection on these ethical subjects.
Program
Responsibility as an Imperative: the ethical relationship according to Hans Jonas.
The program aims at analyzing and discussing Hans Jonas’ philosophical perspective about the ethical and relational meaning of responsibility referring to such issues as:
- The ethical consideration about the action of the human being, technology and the relationship with Nature;
- Responsibility and future;
- Foundations and method of ethics: principles and duties;
- The concept of purpose and the ethical meaning of final cause;
- Good, being and duty;
- Paradigms of the theory of responsibility according to Hans Jonas;
- Jonas’ ethics within the phenomenological context.
Reading list:
1) H. Jonas, Il principio responsabilità. Un’etica per la civiltà tecnologica, a cura di Piero Paolo Portinaro, Einaudi, Torino 2009, prefazione dell'autore (pp. XXVII-XXXI) e capitoli I-IV (pp. 3-173);
2) L. Risio, La responsabilità nella fenomenologia di Edmund Husserl e nell’etica di Hans Jonas, in F. Miano (a cura di), Etica e responsabilità, Orthotes, Napoli-Salerno 2018, pp. 97-106;
3) A. Pugliese, Tra identità e individuazione: la responsabilità come genesi della persona, in F. Miano (a cura di), Etica e responsabilità, cit., pp. 195-204.
Teaching Methods: frontal lessons analyzing and discussing the above-mentioned texts.
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Francesco Miano (a cura di) | Etica e responsabilità | Orthotes | 2018 | 978-88-9314-144-4 | |
| Hans Jonas | Il principio responsabilità. Un'etica per la civiltà tecnologica | Einaudi | 2009 | 978-88-06-20105-0 | A cura di Pier Paolo Portinaro. |
Examination Methods
For both attending and non-attending students the exam consists of an oral test concerning the program and the reading list. To pass the exam, students will have to demonstrate that they have achieved the learning outcomes: acquired knowledge, interpretation and ethical reflection skills will be verified referring to course program and reading list.
