PHILOSOPHY OF KNOWLEDGE (ADVANCED COURSE)

The course of Philosophy of Knowledge, of theoretical field, deals with issues related to the elaboration and criticism of the foundation of knowledge, in relation to the themes evoked by classical thought and to the outcomes of modern and contemporary philosophical reflection. The course privileges the analytic work on texts, "the strenuous effort of the Concept" and the exhibition of the speculative terms devised by the thinkers who have measured themselves with the theme of knowledge

Detailed and critical knowledge of the issues and fundamental problems of philosophy of knowledge in relation to the nodal points of the Western philosophical tradition and its developments in the contemporary debate in the larger context of the crisis of the foundations in the philosophical thought of the twentieth century

Depth knowledge of the argumentative and methodological strategies regarding the theoretical size of philosophical experience

Ability to read and interpret a philosophical text, focusing on the theoretical approach

Ability to analyze, understand and argue the reasons underlying the philosophical issues in view of a theoretical reworking, also in relation to the consequences of a practical nature

Depht knowledge of the history of philosophy, with particular regard to metaphysical themes

Giovanni Gentile. Philosophy of time
1) Idealism and time
2) Subject, act, development
3) Space and time
4) Novelty without facts
5) History and eternity
6) Historicism and metaphysics
7) Fact, event
8) Irremeabilis unda
9) Denial of the past
10) A world without things

1.
G. GENTILE, Teoria generale dello spirito come atto puro (1916), capp. I-IV; IX-XIII
G. GENTILE, Il superamento del tempo nella storia (1935), in ID., Frammenti di estetica e di teoria della storia, Vol. II, pp. 3-20
G. GENTILE, Storicismo e storicismo (1942), in ID., Introduzione alla filosofia, Appendice I

2.
D. SPANIO, Gentile, Roma, Carocci 2011

D. SPANIO, Lo spettacolo del passato. Gentile e il tempo, in L. Cortella, F. Mora, I. Testa (a cura di), La socialità della ragione. Scritti in onore di Luigi Ruggiu, Mimesis, MIlano 2011, pp. 311-323
D. SPANIO, Un mondo senza cose. L'antirealismo di Giovanni Gentile, in H. A. Cavallera (a cura di), Eventi e studi. Scritti in onore di Hervé A. Cavallera, PensaMultimedia, Lecce 2017, vol. II, pp. 195-206

3.
G. SASSO, Filosofia e idealismo. II. Giovanni Gentile, Bibliopolis, Napoli 1996, pp. 53-141
E. SEVERINO, Gli abitatori del tempo. La struttura dell’Occidente e il nichilismo, Rizzoli, Milano-Udine 2009, pp. 31-44; 151-166
M. VISENTIN, Il neoparmenidismo italiano. I. Le premesse storiche e filosofiche: Croce e Gentile, Bibliopolis, Napoli 2005, pp. 401-440

Approfondimenti
V. PRATOLA, Gentile e il problema del tempo, in Enciclopedia ’76-’77. Il pensiero di Giovanni Gentile, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma 1977

E. LAGO, La volontà di potenza e il passato. Nietzsche e Gentile, Bompiani, Milano 2005
I. MOLIN, Gentile e Leibniz. Verso una virtualità dell’atto, Prefazione di D. Spanio, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2018

For the examination, the student will have to demonstrate to:
1) know how to contextualize the themes of the course from the historical-philosophical point of view;
2) To know the terminology, the fundamental concepts and the theoretical references of the texts explored by the course
3) being able to analytically reconstruct the trend of the analyzed texts, highlighting points/steps nodal and argument ways
4) grasp the outcomes of this specific approach to theme: denial of the past and world without things.

Lecture and seminar

Italian

The examination syllabus will be specified.
Students who do not attend lessons are required to agree the program with the teacher.

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