THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Academic year

2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years

Official course title

FILOSOFIA TEORETICA II

Course code

FT0276 (AF:318082 AR:168940)

Modality

On campus classes

ECTS credits

6 out of 12 of THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Degree level

Bachelor's Degree Programme

Educational sector code

M-FIL/01

Period

2nd Term

Course year

2

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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals

In the philosophical studies Theoretical Philosophy is as fundamental as the study of Physiology in Medicine. It aims to bring out the first elements of the essential questions of human thought, without limiting itself to an analytical decomposition or a historiographical survey. His critical and multi-perspectives syntheses -- albeit nourished by the necessary philological and historical-cultural mediations -- engage themselves directly and immediately with the weight and consequences of things to think about.

Expected learning outcomes

Learning to recognize the multiple meanings, stratifications and references of an important philosophical text.
Learning to focus more on the right questions than on the answers.
Learning to articulate discourses aiming at justifying your own claims to truth.
Learning to select reliable document bases.

Pre-requirements

This course is intended for students enrolled in the second year and therefore it would be inadvisable for the first year students.

Contents

Plato and Heidegger: on impossibility of saying what is not.

Referral texts

Plato, The Sophist;
Martin Heidegger, Plato's Sophist (1924-5), Indiana University Press, 2003 (selected parts);
Martin Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? (1929) [available online];
Martin Heidegger, Plato's Doctrine of Truth, in M. Heidegger, Pathmarks, Cambridge University Press 2014.

Only for NOT attending students:
Paolo Crivelli, Plato's Account of Falsehood. A Study of the Sophist, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Assessment methods

The exam will consist of an oral interview lasting twenty or thirty minutes.

Teaching methods

Lectures will give space to the direct reading of texts, projected on screen, and to a wide interlocution with the students.

Teaching language

Italian

Type of exam

oral

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Definitive programme.

Last update of the programme: 28/04/2019