FILOSOFIA E SCIENZE NELL’ANTICHITA’

To deepen the knowledge and the competence of the critical and methodological problems related to the research on ancient philosophy with the purpose to read and to correctly interpret the texts.

Lectures with reading of texts.

Aristotle’s Metaphysics: the first philosophy as science of causes.

Module A (5 ECTS)

1. C. Natali, Aristotele, Roma 2014, Carocci, pp. 17-344.

2. P. Donini, Metafisica. Introduzione alla lettura, Roma 2000, Carocci, pp. 9-162.

3. E. Berti, La Metafisica di Aristotele : «onto-teologia» o «filosofia prima»?, in E. Berti, Nuovi studi aristotelici, Brescia 2005, Morcelliana, vol. II, pp. 395-420.

Module B (1 ECTS)

4. E. Berti e C. Rossitto (a cura di), Aristotele. Il libro primo della «Metafisica», Roma-Bari 1993, Laterza, pp. 3-139.

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