Teaching code

4S007337

Credits

6

Coordinator

Tommaso Tuppini

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

Hermeneutics and Linguistic Practices The programme aims to encourage hermeneutic readings of philosophical texts by having students work directly on this technique during lessons. For this purpose, the course aims to offer the cognitive foundations of hermeneutical practice both in its historico-philosophical reconstruction and in the contemporary debate, emphasizing the different philosophical positions on the field. The purpose of the hermeneutical practice in the classroom is that students (females and males) can acquire an ability to interpret the philosophical texts proposed with a refined critical sense and with the ability to deal with different interpretations of the text itself and to discuss the different opinions. All this is done to create the habit of reading philosophical texts, which may subsequently be an acquired education for further situations in which interpretative skills are needed.

Prerequisites and basic notions

None

Program

WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
Being conscious of something, feeling, perceiving, seeing ... What is the meaning of these expressions? The thought of the twentieth century, in some ways, seems to have disqualified the notion of "consciousness" once and for all, as if it were a Cartesian and representational residue that is an obstacle to an adequate understanding of our experience. But perhaps "consciousness" is also the name of something else: not a cog of representation but the unary space that precedes phenomenological intentionality and rejects representation. Considered from this perspective, conscience is not the res cogitans of the spiritualists or the transcendental subject of Kantism but it is a saying yes to the world before any distance, adhesion without rest in which experience finds a reason for completeness. To discover this new sense of conscience we will go through the essays of some great heretics of philosophy: Giovanni Gentile, the young Julius Evola, Jean-Paul Sartre, William James, Raymond Ruyer.
Bibliography:
J.-P. Sartre, La trascendenza dell'Ego, Marinotti 2011
G. Gentile, La riforma della dialettica hegeliana, Sansoni 1954 (excerpts)
J. Evola, Saggi sull'idealismo magico, Mediterranee, 2006 (passi scelti)
W. James, Alcuni problemi di filosofia, Mimesis 2021
W. James, Saggi di empirismo radicale, Quodlibet 2009

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The course is divided into two parts: the first consists of lectures, the second is organized as a seminar and provides for the participation of students through oral reports to be discussed 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

There are three possibilities to pass the exam:
- Those who have attended at least two-thirds of the meetings (32 hours out of 48) and have prepared an oral report discussed in the classroom, at the end of the course will receive a proposal of vote which, if accepted, will be registered on the day of the exam.
- Those who have attended at least two thirds of the meetings and have not prepared an oral report discussed in the classroom, will write a report of about 18,000 characters whose topic must be agreed with the teacher at least one month before the exam date and which will be discussed orally on examination.
- Those who have attended less than two thirds of the meetings or have not attended, will write a report of about 24,000 characters whose topic must be agreed with the teacher at least one month before the exam date and which will be discussed orally during the exam.

Evaluation criteria

For those who have attended at least two thirds of the meetings and prepared a report discussed in the classroom, the evaluation criteria are: quality and seriousness of the report, consistency of argumentation and clarity in the presentation, active participation in the discussions of the seminar.
For those who have attended at least two thirds of the meetings and have not prepared a report discussed in the classroom, the evaluation criteria are: quality and seriousness of the written report, consistency of argumentation and clarity in the presentation during the oral interview, active participation in the discussions of the seminar part.
For those who have attended less than two thirds of the meetings or have not attended, the evaluation criteria are: quality and seriousness of the written report, consistency of argumentation and clarity in the presentation during the oral interview.

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