STORIA DELLA CULTURA EUROPEA

Knowledge and understanding: the course allows to acquire a structured knowledge, verified during the course through oral examinations, about the main theoretical and historical-cultural characters of the philosophical thought of Justus Lipsius and the Neostoic movement in the context of the history of the European identity. The acquisition of these cognitive elements involves the enhancement and development of a specific historical-historiographical mode of critic understanding.

Applying knowledge and understanding: the historical-historiographical learning in a context of analysis of texts and philosophical debates is designed to train a concrete ability to historical understanding, through the critical control of contents and the appropriation of a specific methodological habitus.

Making judgement: the historical-historiographical learning and its methodological habitus formed in the student a critical capacity of judgement and the historical awareness of their belonging’s categories and the social dimension of identity as historical production.

Communication skills: the student, trough lectures, seminars and tutorials, learn to apply the criticals tools of the historical criticism and to use properly the disciplinary lexicon.

Learning skills: The acquisition of a historical-historiographical methodological habitus establishes and strengthens an autonomous capacity learning, performed by the cognitive sequence: textual and linguistic analysis – historical-critical contextualization – historical-theoretical evaluation

The course instructs students about the philosophical thought of Justus Lipsius and the neostoic movement, investigated as founding moments of European cultural identity. Special attention will be paid to the relationships between nature and history, memory and government, politics and religion.

G. M. Barbuto, Il pensiero politico del Rinascimento, Roma, Carocci, 2008

R. Tuck, Philosophy and government (1572-1651), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, capp. 2 (Scepticism, Stoicism and ‘raison d’état’) e 3 (The spread of the new humanism), pp. 31-119

Giusto Lipsio, Opere politiche, vol. I, La Politica, a cura di T. Provvidera, Torino, Aragno, 2012 (pp. XV-LXXV; 264-487)