Teaching code

4S00985

Teacher

Tommaso Tuppini

Coordinator

Tommaso Tuppini

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 27, 2021 al Nov 6, 2021.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

Hermeneutics The principal aim of the course is to give an adequate understanding of what properly philosophical hermeneutics is. Hermeneutics is usually understood as the discipline and art of interpretation. This type of hermeneutics arises from the exegesis of sacred and humanistic texts, which follows the rediscovery of Greek civilization with the Italian Renaissance and the free reading of the Bible with the German Reformation. The theory of interpretation is a variety of philological and religious hermeneutics, it is a tool for understanding the written text and the dogmatic subjectivity. Instead, properly philosophical hermeneutics is not a theory of interpretation and has nothing to do with text and language. Philosophical hermeneutics was born in the twentieth century with Husserl - which defines phenomenology as a “hermeneutics of conscious life” – and with Heidegger, for whom the exercise of philosophy is a “hermeneutics of facticity”, i.e. the understanding existence has of itself. Such hermeneutics is not “interpretation” but “explication” and “unfolding” (Auslegung), i.e. spontaneous articulation of being, an event that precedes language and in which Being unfolds and participates in all possible ways of being. At the end of the course, students will be able to follow the twisting paths of 20th century hermeneutics with greater awareness and agility, thus enhancing their knowledge of contemporary philosophical debate. They will have the capacity to autonomously comprehend texts and subjects addressed during the course, to employ a proper philosophical terminology, to communicate philosophical topics with specialists and non-specialists, and the ability to to continue studies at a higher level.

Program

THE SENSE OF THE END

There is a sense of business, of family, of the state, of humor, of measure, of beauty, of duty. Then there are those who have a sense of the end, for example Verdi's Othello who, embracing Desdemona at the end of Act I, exclaims: "Tale è il gaudio dell'anima che temo, temo che più non mi sarà concesso quest'​attimo divino nell'ignoto avvenir del mio destino". In fact it is the last time that Othello is happy, and he knows it, he feels it. Whoever has a sense of the end lives every moment as the last, unrepeatable, destined to disappear forever. He has a form of life that we could call tragic, every experience stands out against a black background that will soon swallow it up. But "sense of the end" can also mean that the end makes sense. Perhaps, among all those we imagine, the only indisputable sense because it is true that everything ends and then it can also seem reasonable to actively seek the end, to want it, and not just suffer it as a misfortune that comes from outside.

Bibliography

Examination Methods

Exam is oral and evaluates the mastery of the topics and concepts contained in the books indicated in the bibliography. The questions evaluate the vocabulary, the critical-argumentative capacity, the ability to autonomously rework what has been learned. There are no program differences for non-attending students.