THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

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 issues 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.

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.

Good acquaintance with the philosophical grammar of traditional ontology

Heidegger's turn in “Introduction to Metaphysics” (1935). “The word 'Being' is for us nothing more than an empty word and an evanescent meaning”?

It is 1935, two years after Hitler took power in Germany. Heidegger holds a course in Freiburg entitled "Introduction to metaphysics", where he aims to radically rethink the grammar of metaphysical language, taking up the question of Being but at the same time renouncing the term 'ontology'. Heidegger's moves are aimed at deconstructing some traditional oppositions such as that between Being and becoming, or between Being and thinking, letting the gap between Greek thought and Latin, scholastic and modern metaphysics emerge. The issue of the foundation is thus rethought by also reinterpreting the Leibnizian question: "Why is there, in general, being and not nothingness?".
Some indications from Jacques Derrida (in “On the Spirit”, 1987) will act as a precious counterpoint regarding the possible Heideggerian mystifications of the original and of the spirit.

Exam program FIRST PART:
1 Lecture notes, including the passages cited in them (available on Moodle);
2 Martin Heidegger, “Introduction to Metaphysics”;
3 Jacques Derrida, "Of the spirit. Heidegger and the question" (1987).

As far as this first part of the course is concerned, the exam will be written and will consist in four passages, taken from the texts in the syllabus, to be illustrated.

written

Regarding the grading, the exam will be marked on a scale ranging from 0 to 30. The minimum passing grade is 18. Honors ("lode") will be granted only for exceptional capacity of judgment and excellent knowledge of the topics under evaluation.

The course includes 6 hours of weekly lessons.

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