Teaching code

4S008119

Academic staff

Davide Bondì, Giuseppe Fornari

Coordinator

Davide Bondì

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 2A, Sem. 2B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

Knowledge and understanding At the end of the course students will be able to demonstrate the attainment of the following learning objectives: 1. knowledge and understanding of the main philosophical problems relevant to educational practice and of the related theories developed over the course of Western thought; 2. knowledge and understanding of the different methodologies available in the philosophical field, their theoretical implications and educational consequences; 3. Knowledge and understanding of the philosophical lexicon and its significance for the development of a technical terminology in the pedagogical field as well. Applying knowledge and understanding At the end of the course students will be able to demonstrate the attainment of the following learning objectives: 1. applying knowledge and understanding to possible scenarios taken from concrete educational activity; 2. applying knowledge and understanding to the reflection on situations in which the dignity of the person and crucial ethical issues determine the pedagogical practice; 3. applying knowledge and understanding to the identification and autonomous analysis of key concepts at the boundary between philosophy and pedagogy; 4. Development of a critical and independent attitude in approaching texts, authors, contexts and problems.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Ability to understand and elaborate argumentative texts, to concentrate and to listen carefully. The reading will in any case be guided by the teachers.

Program

We propose a path in modern philosophy centered on the notions of otherness and difference. The currents of modern rationalism will be focused on as responses to the challenges posed by the multiplicity of historical and cultural experiences that advanced with the geographical discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is possible that the attempt to arrive at a rational synthesis capable of accounting for the multiple structures of reality without eliminating and reabsorbing them has failed, but even those developments cannot be understood outside the permanent dialogue between authors sensitive to the variety of the empirical world. and those who have looked for a rule to justify it and account for it. The course will start from Michel de Montaigne's Essays (1580) who are at the basis of the seventeenth-century debate on savages and barbarism. We will then deal with the attempt at a methodological synthesis of knowledge delivered by René Descartes to the Discourse on the method (1637), to account for the multiplicity commensurate with a valid rationality criterion because it is based on methodical doubt and freed from historical-cultural habits and conditioning. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's path will be taken into consideration by insisting on the re-evaluation of sentiment as a dimension of experience that cannot be reduced to the form of reason postulated by Descartes, with reference to passages from the Confessions (1782). Passages or single parts of the cited works will be studied, bringing out the fundamental themes from the concreteness of the texts, avoiding manual abstractions and returning to the historical experiences from which the ideas are born and on which, once elaborated and put into circulation, they return to act.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The course will be held in compliance with the University provisions on COVID-19. The course will in any case be divided into lectures that will be alternated with discussions led by the teacher and short reports by the students (optional) on previously agreed topics. Particular attention will be given to reading and commenting on the texts. The plurality of didactic paths is designed according to the student, who will be provided with as broad a spectrum as possible of learning opportunities in order to guarantee the acquisition of both the knowledge and the skills set out in the training objectives.

Learning assessment procedures

Oral exam (in person or remotely depending on the University provisions on COVID-19) + possible report. The exam will aim to ascertain the achievement of the dual educational objectives of the course (knowledge / understanding and skills) with particular attention to the ability to compare the authors treated.

Evaluation criteria

The evaluation criteria will be as follows: 1) possession of key information and notions; 2) ability to present clearly; 3) ability to analyze texts; 4) autonomy of thought.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The vote will be expressed out of thirty and substantially composed of the evaluation of the answers to three questions, each of which will focus on a single author.

Exam language

Italiano