HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE

M-FIL/06 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

CORRADO GIARRATANA


Learning Objectives

The main aim is to retrace and to understand the main features of philosophical thought concerning the origin and development of religion in the Early Modern and Modern Age.



Detailed Course Content

Philosophical inquiry concerning the origin and structure of religious thinking between Seventeenth and Twentieth Century.



Textbook Information

- John Locke, Saggio sull’intelligenza umana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011, 2 voll., vol. II, pp. 461-473, 494-528, 702-715, 760-803.

- John Toland, Il Cristianesimo senza misteri, in Idem, Opere, Torino, UTET, 2011, pp. 93-187.

- John Stuart Mill, Il Teismo, in Idem, Saggi sulla religione, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2009, pp. 87-162.

- Miguel de Unamuno, Del sentimento tragico della vita negli uomini e nei popoli, Casale Monferrato (AL), Piemme, 2004, pp. 47-152.




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