GNOSEOLOGY

The course of Gnoseology, of theoretical field, deals in particular with the issues related to the theory of knowledge elaborated in the modern age, constantly referring to the themes evoked by classical thought and the outcomes of contemporary philosophical reflection. The course privileges the analytical work on texts, the exhibition of the argumentative strategies and the clarification of speculative terms devised by the thinkers who have measured themselves with the question of the possibility and limits of knowledge.

A general knowledge of the issues and fundamental problems of gnoseology, in relation to the nodal points of the Western philosophical tradition and its developments in the contemporary debate;

General knowledge and understanding of some important classic texts of Western gnoseology

Knowledge of the fundamental argumentative strategies on theoretical dimension of philosophical experience, with particular attention to the lexicon, categories and definitions of different speculative survey areas.

Ability to deal with a philosophical text, emphasizing the theoretical approach

Ability to analyze, understand and argue the reasons underlying philosophical issues, including in relation to the consequences of a practical nature

Basic knowledge of the history of philosophy

From the I to God.
Descartes and the ontological proof of the existence of God

1) Descartes and modern gnoseology
2) The cogito
3) Demonstrate the existence of God
4) The ontological argument (I)
5) The ontological argument (II)

1.
R. DESCARTES, Discorso sul metodo
R. DESCARTES, Meditazioni metafisiche. Obbiezioni e risposte
(edd. Laterza, Roma-Bari; La Scuola, Brescia)

ANSELMO D'AOSTA, Proslogio, a cura di I. Sciuto, Bompiani, Milano 2002


2.
S. VANNI ROVIGHI, Gnoseologia, Brescia, Morcelliana 1963 (ora ID., Filosofia della conoscenza, Bologna, Edizioni Studio Domenicano 2015)

3.
F. TOMATIS, L’argomento ontologico. L’esistenza di Dio da Anselmo a Schelling, Città Nuova, Roma 1997 (II ed. 2010)

D. HENRICH, La prova ontologica dell’esistenza di Dio: la sua problematica e la sua storia nell'età moderna, Prismi, Napoli 1983, pp. 29-43
E. SCRIBANO, L’esistenza di Dio. Storia della prova ontologica da Descartes a Kant, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1994, capp. II-III

For the examination, the student will have to demonstrate to:

1) knowing how to introduce and contextualize the themes of the course from the theoretical and historical-philosophical point of view;
2) learn the terminology, the basic concepts and the theoretical points covered during the course;
3) being able to reconstruct the development of the texts, highlighting points / steps nodal and argument ways.

Lecture.
Introduction, reading and analysis of the texts

Italian

Students who do not attend lessons are required to agree the program with the teacher.

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