HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

To acquire a critical understanding of the historical development of philosophy, through the study of the History of Early Modern and Modern Philosophy, as well as through the knowledge of the thought and the reading of the work of an Early Modern Age philosopher.

A – From Renaissance to Kant (4 CFU)

Renaissance and naturalism (Telesio, Bruno, Campanella) – The origin of modern science (Galileo, Bacon) – Descartes – Hobbes – Pascal – Spinoza – Leibniz – Vico – Locke – Berkeley – Hume – The Enlightenment – Kant.

B – From Idealism to Sartre (2 CFU)

Fichte – Schelling – Hegel – Marx – Positivism (Comte, Stuart Mill) – Anglo-American Idealism – Italian Idealism – Pragmatism – Dewey – Sartre.

C – Critical reason and empiricism: John Locke’s An Essay concerning Human Understanding (3 CFU).

An introduction to Locke’s philosophy – Reading of excerpts of Locke’s Essay.

N.B. Students from the Letters Degree (6 CFU) are required to study part of module B (Fichte – Schelling – Hegel – Anglo-American Idealism – Italian Idealism – Pragmatism) plus a short module (D) on the orteguian Meditations on Quixote.

A

- N. Abbagnano, Storia della filosofia, vol. 2, La filosofia moderna: dal Rinascimento all’Illuminismo, Torino, UTET, 2013, pp. 322.

B

- N. Abbagnano, Storia della filosofia, vol. 3, La filosofia moderna e contemporanea: dal Romanticismo all’Esistenzialismo, Torino, UTET, 2013, pp. 214 (N.B. pp. 160 for Letters Degree).

C

- M. Sina, Introduction to Locke, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2011, pp. 3-129.

- J. Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2011, Volume 1, Book I (Chapters I-IV), Book II (Chapters I, II, XII, XXIII).

D (N.B. Letters Degree only)

- J. Ortega y Gasset, Meditazioni del Chisciotte e altri saggi, a cura di G. Cacciatore e M.L. Mollo, Guida editori, Napoli, 2016, pp. I-XIII, 1-145.