Teaching code

4S00754

Teacher

Tommaso Tuppini

Coordinator

Tommaso Tuppini

Credits

12

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 1A, Sem. 1B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 1

Learning objectives

Theoretical Philosophy
The teaching program aims to teach the fundamentals of the theory and language of philosophy in such a way that students will be able to independently recognize and understand the internal relationship between philosophical concepts and issues. To encourage this, the teaching program will cover a number of central issues to the European and, in some cases, extra-European philosophical traditions.
At the end of the course, students will know the main conceptual lines of Western philosophical tradition and the most important debates going on in contemporary philosophical. They will also be able to comprehend philosophical texts, to set them within a proper critical frame, to employ a correct philosophical terminology, and to autonomously form judgements on the subjects dealt with in classes. Finally, they will also be capable to communicate philosophical contents to specialists and non-specialists alike, and to continue their studies at a MA level.

Prerequisites and basic notions

None.

Program

NIETZSCHE: TRAGEDY, ACTION, RESENTMENT
The 28-year-old professor of classical philology Friedrich Nietzsche had asked this question: what does "act" mean for a Greek? Is there a properly "Dionysian" action? How is it made, what does it look like? To answer these questions, we must start from the Attic tragedy and its heroes: Xerxes, Prometheus, Oedipus. We no longer understand them and the reason is that our modern and anti-tragic humanity is the product of the theoretical revolution of Socratism, which has essentially transformed the sense of action. The latter has become the expression of a free and responsible subject, therefore always guilty. In order to arrive at the modern and anti-Greek figure of the subject, it is necessary to go through the experience of resentment, in which our understanding of action is founded. What is resentment? It is necessary to clarify this, because only an overcoming of resentment will be able to bring about the dawn of a new humanity, the superhuman figure of a "homo natura" that Nietzsche's thought wants to make possible.
Bibliography:
F. Nietzsche, La nascita della tragedia, Adelphi 1971
F. Nietzsche, Sull'utilità e il danno della storia per la vita, Adelphi 1974
F. Nietzsche, La genealogia della morale, Adelphi 1984
F. Nietzsche, La filosofia nell'epoca tragica dei Greci, Adelphi 1991
We will also read and comment on some passages from the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
Students who cannot attend classes will also study: T. Tuppini, Nietzsche, Solferino 2018

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Lectures in the classroom, with the possibility of speaking and discussing the topics presented together.
Materials and notices relating to the lessons and, if necessary, to the exam sessions will be published on the Moodle page of the Course.

Learning assessment procedures

Oral examination.

Evaluation criteria

The questions evaluate the study and understanding of the texts, the property of language, the argumentative ability, the ability to autonomously re-elaborate what has been learned.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The grades are expressed in thirtieths and the exam is passed if the grade is at least 18/30. Max mark is 30/30 cum laude.

Exam language

Italiano oppure, se lo studente preferisce, inglese