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B026288 - MORAL PHILOSOPHY
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Academic Year 2023-24
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-FIL/03 - MORAL PHILOSOPHY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
19/02/2024 ⇒ 08/06/2024
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B030369 - FILOSOFIA MORALE 1
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in PHILOSOPHY
B030369 - FILOSOFIA MORALE 1
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in PHILOSOPHY
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course is an introduction to moral philosophy, with in-depth study of the main categories of ethics. The central concepts and topics that constitute the sphere of metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics will be examined.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Programme for attending students (12 CFU)
P. Donatelli, La filosofia e la vita etica, Einaudi 2020, capp. 1-6.
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Laterza, Libri 1, 2, 3, 6.
D. Hume, Trattato sulla natura umana, Laterza, Libro secondo: parte prima, sezz. 1, 2, 7, 11; parte terza, sezz. 1, 2, 3; Libro terzo (tutto).
I. Kant, Fondazione della metafisica dei costumi, in Critica della ragion pratica e altri scritti morali, UTET, prefazione, sezioni 1 e 2.
Programme for attending students (6 CFU)
P. Donatelli, La filosofia e la vita etica, Einaudi 2020, capp. 1-6.
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Laterza, Libri 1, 2, 3, 6.
Programme for non-attending students (12 CFU)
P. Donatelli, La filosofia e la vita etica, Einaudi 2020, capp. 1-6.
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Laterza, Libri 1, 2, 3, 6.
D. Hume, Trattato sulla natura umana, Laterza, Libro secondo: parte prima, sezz. 1, 2, 7, 11; parte terza, sezz. 1, 2, 3; Libro terzo (tutto).
I. Kant, Fondazione della metafisica dei costumi, in Critica della ragion pratica e altri scritti morali, UTET, prefazione, sezioni 1 e 2.
M. Vegetti, F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele. Quindici lezioni, Einaudi 2016, capp. X, XI, XII.
L. Greco, L’io morale. David Hume e l’etica contemporanea, Liguori, parti 1, 2, 3.
S. Bacin, Kant e l’autonomia della volontà, Il Mulino, capp. 1, 2, 3.
Programme for non-attending students 6 cfu
P. Donatelli, La filosofia e la vita etica, Einaudi 2020, capp. 1-6.
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Laterza, Libri 1, 2, 3, 6.
M. Vegetti, F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele. Quindici lezioni, Einaudi 2016, capp. X, XI, XII.
I recommend reading the chapters of a good philosophy textbook on the thought of the three authors (Aristotle, Hume, Kant).
P. Donatelli, La filosofia e la vita etica, Einaudi 2020, capp. 1-6.
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Laterza, Libri 1, 2, 3, 6.
D. Hume, Trattato sulla natura umana, Laterza, Libro secondo: parte prima, sezz. 1, 2, 7, 11; parte terza, sezz. 1, 2, 3; Libro terzo (tutto).
I. Kant, Fondazione della metafisica dei costumi, in Critica della ragion pratica e altri scritti morali, UTET, prefazione, sezioni 1 e 2.
Programme for attending students (6 CFU)
P. Donatelli, La filosofia e la vita etica, Einaudi 2020, capp. 1-6.
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Laterza, Libri 1, 2, 3, 6.
Programme for non-attending students (12 CFU)
P. Donatelli, La filosofia e la vita etica, Einaudi 2020, capp. 1-6.
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Laterza, Libri 1, 2, 3, 6.
D. Hume, Trattato sulla natura umana, Laterza, Libro secondo: parte prima, sezz. 1, 2, 7, 11; parte terza, sezz. 1, 2, 3; Libro terzo (tutto).
I. Kant, Fondazione della metafisica dei costumi, in Critica della ragion pratica e altri scritti morali, UTET, prefazione, sezioni 1 e 2.
M. Vegetti, F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele. Quindici lezioni, Einaudi 2016, capp. X, XI, XII.
L. Greco, L’io morale. David Hume e l’etica contemporanea, Liguori, parti 1, 2, 3.
S. Bacin, Kant e l’autonomia della volontà, Il Mulino, capp. 1, 2, 3.
Programme for non-attending students 6 cfu
P. Donatelli, La filosofia e la vita etica, Einaudi 2020, capp. 1-6.
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Laterza, Libri 1, 2, 3, 6.
M. Vegetti, F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele. Quindici lezioni, Einaudi 2016, capp. X, XI, XII.
I recommend reading the chapters of a good philosophy textbook on the thought of the three authors (Aristotle, Hume, Kant).
Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge of contemporary philosophical ethics and the ability to understand and use appropriately the fundamental concepts of moral philosophy. The aim of the course will be to provide tools to reach an independent and mature judgment on the moral issues addressed and to be able to read a classical text of the discipline.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures, guided discussion on classical texts
Further information
None
Type of Assessment
The exam will consist of an oral test of about 30 minutes. The purpose of the exam is to verify the correct assimilation of knowledge, the ability to master the philosophical vocabulary and to orient oneself in the interpretation of a classical text.
Course program
Title: "Introduction to Ethics"
The course aims to provide the basic knowledge in the field of moral philosophy. In the first part, the main partitions of ethics (metaethics, normative ethics, applied ethics), the relationship between descriptive and normative ethics, the main contemporary metaethical theories, some notions of applied ethics (especially bioethics) will be analyzed. In the second part of the course, the main concepts will be introduced and elucidated by reading some parts of classics of moral philosophy: some books of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", the third book of D. Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature" and I. Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals".
The course aims to provide the basic knowledge in the field of moral philosophy. In the first part, the main partitions of ethics (metaethics, normative ethics, applied ethics), the relationship between descriptive and normative ethics, the main contemporary metaethical theories, some notions of applied ethics (especially bioethics) will be analyzed. In the second part of the course, the main concepts will be introduced and elucidated by reading some parts of classics of moral philosophy: some books of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", the third book of D. Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature" and I. Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals".