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History of Renaissance Philosophy (2021/2022)
Teaching code
4S007383
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Period
Sem. 2B dal Apr 4, 2022 al Jun 4, 2022.
Learning outcomes
The course aims at providing students with a profound knowledge of the History of Renaissance Thought (fifteenth- to sixteenth-century). At the end, students are expected to show a solid knowledge of the authors and texts dealt with in the course as well as the ability to start further research on their own. The results of teaching are:
1. KNOWLEDGE: (1) Knowledge of the philosophical tradition; (2) Ability to establish connections (even interdisciplinary) between determinations of thought and epochs; (3) Hermeneutical skills; (4) Awareness of the problems related to the historiographical methodology.
2. SKILLS (1) Ability to analyze the sources; (2) Ability to apply the theoretical and methodological tools necessary to allow autonomy of research, critical reflection and understanding; (3) Ability to produce an organic and systematic overview; (4) Ability to manage and interpret historical-bibliographic sources autonomously and to identify connections between different phases of philosophical, artistic and cultural processes and currents; (5) Ability to produce an organic and systematic overview:
3. AUTONOMY (1) Ability to formulate an independent critical judgment on philosophical or cultural issues; (2) Ability to autonomously manage and interpret historical-bibliographic sources and to identify connections between different phases of philosophical, artistic and cultural processes and currents.
4. COMMUNICATION (1) Ability to communicate, share and disseminate information, ideas, problems and solutions with specialists and non-specialists.
5. LEARNING (1) Ability to autonomously process research paths; (2) Ability to master interdisciplinary dialogue; (3) Ability to carry out research work independently.
Program
General topic of the course: The birth of political philosophy and modern historiography in Machiavelli and Guicciardini.
1) Political thought and historiography in classical antiquity: Plato; Aristotle; the ethic-practical dimension; the Greek historiography (Herodotus, Thucydides); the Roman historiography (Sallustius, Livius, Tacitus).
2) political and historical thought in the Middle Ages: history as action of God (Augustine, Orosius); the polemics between Church and Empire; millenarismus (Joachim of Fiore); chronicles; Dante.
3) The Humanism: the crisis of the universal powers; the new collective and civic ideals.
4) Florence and the crisis of the Italian States: the aftermath of the death of Lorenzo il Magnifico; Savonarola; the expulsion of the Medici and the problems of the Florentine republic.
5) Niccolò Machiavelli: the Legazioni; Il Principe; Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio; Istorie fiorentine.
6) Francesco Guicciardini: the friendship with Machiavelli; Ricordi; Storia d'Italia.
Bibliography
Examination Methods
The exam is oral and deals with a personal ascertainment of the topics studied in the course through a dialogue with the professor.
