Teaching code

4S012315

Teacher

Giuseppe Fornari

Coordinator

Giuseppe Fornari

Credits

12

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 2A, Sem. 2B

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Prerequisites and basic notions

A very general acquaintance with the historical frame of the historical periods studied in the course, which will be strengthened by some explanations at the beginning of the course. Attention toward the textual analysis and the comprehension of the methodological and conceptual problems. Attitude to an historico-critical approach toward the authors and the questions considered. Curiosity for reconstructing historico-cultural contexts.

Program

1) General characteristics of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; interpretative problems; textual typologies and approaches. 2) Birth of monotheism; establishment of the biblical canon; origins of Christianity; development of Christological and Trinitarian dogmas. 3) Origen: exegetical method; his contribution to Christian thought. 4) Origen and Greek patristics; characteristics of Greek-language Christianity. 5) Western Christianity and its characteristics; Augustine: formation and conversion. 6) Augustine: the Trinitarian conception; his vision of history; reflections on original sin. 7) Severinus Boethius: logical studies; the De consolatione philosophiae; his legacy. 8) Birth of the Benedictine order: the Rule; the historical-cultural role of Benedictine monasteries. 9) The Early Middle Ages and Scotus Erigena: nature and salvation; Origen's tradition in the West. 10) Anselm: the relationship between revelation and knowledge; the Monologion and Trinitarian thought. 11) The consequences of Anselm's thought and the birth of the epistemological problem; the rebirth of medieval society. 12) Abelard and the birth of scholasticism; Saint Bernard and the tradition of mystical love. 13) The rediscovery of Aristotle and the birth of universities. 14) Arabic noetics and its developments in the West. 15) Francis and the Franciscan movement. 16) Bonaventure of Bagnoregio. 17) Thomas Aquinas. 18) Duns Scotus and Occam. 19) Courtly Love and Dante. 20) Humanism and the Renaissance. 21) Nicholas of Cusa and late-medieval mysticism. 22) Marsilio Ficino and the rediscovery of Plato. 23) Pico della Mirandola; Venetian Platonism. 24) Pietro Pomponazzi and the Aristotelian and post-Aristotelian debates of the Renaissance.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The explanations will be mainly frontal, but interspersed with readings and analyses of the texts and discussions with the students.

Learning assessment procedures

The exams will be oral.

Evaluation criteria

Ability to present clearly and orderly, using appropriate vocabulary. Understanding of philosophical texts and issues within their historical context. Achieving a comparative and comprehensive understanding of the history of thought in the periods considered.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The grade will be given out of thirtieths, taking into account the evaluation criteria outlined above.

Exam language

Italiano