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MORAL PHILOSOPHY II

[Italiano] AF: 130063 AR: 62172
Official course title FILOSOFIA MORALE II
Academic Year 2011/2012
Course code FT0354
University credits 6
Subdivision Full Time
Degree level First Cycle Degree M.D.270
Educational sector code M-FIL/03
Semester/trimester 2° Periodo

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Contents

Educational Goals

Ethics in the age of technology. Part II

The transformations of ideologies in the age of technology: politics as more and more subordinated to economics,economics to technology; nature as reduced to raw material; religion and nihilism as linked to God’s death; history as such that the idea of progress is replaced by the one of a simple, pointless development.

Requirements

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Contents

Technology and the fall of ideologiesy. How politics moves from human government to the government of roles and functions. The subsumption of nature under the category of dominion and the exploitation of the earth. The twilight of religion and the secularization process. The pointless features of technology and the consumption of history’s sense.

Recommended Reading List

Kant, Fondazione della metafisica dei costumi, Laterza
Marx, Il capitale, Libro I, Prima sezione, capitoli 1, 2, 3, Editori Riuniti
Heidegger, La questione della tecnica, e Oltrepassamento della metafisica, in Saggi e discorsi, Mursia
Galimberti, Psiche e techne, Parte VI: “Sociologia della tecnica: le grandi ideazioni” Feltrinelli

Assessment

oral

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Teaching Language

Italian

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