History of Contemporary Philosophy (2018/2019)

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Course code
4S00805
Name of lecturer
Riccardo Pozzo
Coordinator
Riccardo Pozzo
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6
Academic sector
M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Language of instruction
Italian
Period
Sem. 1A dal Sep 24, 2018 al Nov 10, 2018.

Lesson timetable

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Learning outcomes

Horizon 2020 asks for societies in Europe that are inclusive, innovative and reflective. The course on History of Contemporary Philosophy for the “Master's degree in Human Resources Training and Development” offers to students an approach that is innovative and certainly reflexive to the theme of inclusion.
Teaching objectives are (1) knowledge and understanding of twentieth-century and recent debates on the philosophy culture in their systematic taxonomy, (2) their application to inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue with special reference Abrahamic monotheism, (3) establishing the ability to formulate judgments (ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, and formulate judgments with incomplete or limited information, but that include reflecting on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments) e (4) strengthen communicative abilities (communicate their conclusions, and the knowledge and rationale underpinning these, to specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously).

Syllabus

PHILOSOPHIES OF CULTURE. Culture cannot be but plural, changing, adaptable, constructed. Inclusion and reflection are constructed whenever we are in contact with other human beings, regardless where they come from. The course aims at a re-contextualisation of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century philosophy of culture in order to make it available to contemporary needs.
INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE. Relevant authors such as Bolzano, Simmel, Freud, Husserl, Hartmann, Gramsci, Rothacker, Plessner, Gelhen, Arendt and Habermas will be considered. In particular, Ernst Cassirer's seminal work, Saggio sull'Uomo will be read and commented.
INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE. When philosophy considers the question of God, it does it on a metatheoretical dimension, which means first and foremost looking at interreligious dialogue. For which it bears responsibility. It ought not to renounce it. It is true philosophy is not neutral, but it is it that poses the conditions for dialogue, which is the fact of reason. Philosophers have the task of double questioning religious texts from an interreligious and intercultural perspective. From a foundational point of view, Philosophy of Religion works the same way Philosophy of Law does. In fact, so as natural law poses the condition for the possibility of all legal orders, so does the concept of God offer to speculative theology the condition of possibility of all Holy Writings, which is immediately clear in the case of Abrahamic monotheism, where the concept of one God is the foundation of the Revelations of Jews, Christians and Muslims. The point is, however, that philosophers are neither jurists nor theologians. They think the question of God, because otherwise philosophy gives up on itself as soon as it abandons this question. Were philosophers to think like jurists, they would consider religion as a right within a multireligious and multicultural society, for which the legislative power has committed itself since a determinate moment in history. Were they to think like theologians, they would evaluate religious propositions in as far as they are in accordance with the Canonic books they call for.

Reference books
Author Title Publisher Year ISBN Note
Giuseppe Cacciatore e Giuseppe D'Anna Interculturalità Carocci 2010 9788843050857
Herta Nagl-Docegal, Claudia Melica, Wolfgang Kaltenbacher La religione dopo la critica alla religione La Scuola di Pitagora 2017 9788865425459
Ernst Cassirer Saggio sull'uomo Mimesis 2011 9788857505534

Assessment methods and criteria

The exam will be an oral discussion and commentare t the required texts. For attendees, it will be possible to divide the exam into an oral and a written part, the former making 50% of the grade, the latter the remaining 50%. The written exam will consist of ten multiple choice question (75% of the grade) e two open answers (20% of the grade).

STUDENT MODULE EVALUATION - 2017/2018


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