HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

M-FIL/06 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

CORRADO GIARRATANA


Course Structure

Lectures + Workshops (Module D - Reading and commentary of Descartes’s A Discourse on the Method).



Detailed Course Content

A – From Descartes to Kant (3 CFU): Descartes – Rationalism – Pascal – Spinoza – Leibniz – Locke – Berkeley – Hume – Vico – The Enlightenment – Rousseau – Kant

B – From German Idealism to Italian Idealism (3 CFU): Fichte – Schelling – Hegel – Schopenhauer – Kierkegaard – Feuerbach – Marx – Nietzsche – Bergson – Pragmatism – Dewey – Croce – Gentile

C – The Twentieth Century (2 CFU): Husserl – Heidegger – Jaspers – Sartre – Christian philosophy – Marxism and the Frankfurt School – Gadamer – Modern and Postmodern (Habermas, Apel, Lyotard, Vattimo, Rorty) – Ethics and Politics (Schmitt, Arendt, Rawls)

D – The origin of Modern Philosophy: René Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (1 CFU): Reading of Descartes’ Discourse on the Method



Textbook Information

A - N. Abbagnano, G. Fornero, La filosofia, vol. 2 (A – B), Torino, Paravia, 2009, pp. 310.

B - N. Abbagnano, G. Fornero, La filosofia, vol. 2 (B), vol. 3 (A), Torino, Paravia, 2009, pp. 300.

C - N. Abbagnano, G. Fornero, La filosofia, vol. 3 (B – C), Torino, Paravia, 2009, pp. 200.

D - R. Descartes, Discorso sul metodo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 201718, pp. 110.

 

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