Presentation
The course, building on the knowledge acquired during the course "Introduction to Moral Philosophy", will offer a more thorough study of topics and features of moral philosophy; it will encourage students to read and interpret classics and to engage in rigorous discussion of the addressed topics.
Being able to present the main currents and topics of moral philosophy: the problem of freedom, the origin of Evil, and the nature of Good, human conduct, principles, mobiles and purpose of actions, the concepts of virtue and happiness, relative or absolute nature of values. Learning to actively understand classics of moral philosophy, through interpretation of texts written by ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophers.
Students will perfect their knowledge of classics and main topics of moral philosophy through discussion and reference to texts and discussion.
Lessons and seminars
6 CFU The idea of a flourishing life as an ethical and aesthetical concept.
Aim of the course is to clarify and deepen the topic of human flourishing both in the ethical and aesthetical dimension and the role that virtues and vices play in the road towards it.
9 CFU Virtue Ethics and the idea of a flourishing life as an ethical and aesthetical concept
Aim of the course is to clarify Virtue Ethics and deepen the topic of human flourishing both in the ethical and aesthetical dimension and the role that virtues and vices play in the road towards it.
Bibliografia per 6 CFU:
tre testi a scelta fra quelli del seguente elenco:
Platone, Fedro, Repubblica, Simposio, Gorgia (diverse edizioni).
Aristotele, Etica nicomachea, Bompiani o Laterza.
Agostino, Le confessioni, Einaudi.
Tommaso d'Aquino, Summa Theologiae ,Edizioni studio domenicano, I-II. q. 27; II-II, q. 145 or Tommaso d'Aquino, La felicità (ST I-II, 1-5), Bompiani.
D. Hume, La regola del gusto e altri saggi, Abscondita.
I. Kant , Critica della facoltà del giudizio, parte I, Einaudi.
F. Schiller , Kallias. Grazia e dignità, Abscondita.
A. Smith , Teoria dei sentimenti morali, Rizzoli.
G. Kruger, Ragione e passione, L’essenza del pensiero platonico, Vita e pensiero.
I. Murdoch, La sovranità del bene, Carabba.
J. Annas, La morale della felicità in Aristotele e nei filosofi dell'età ellenistica, Vita e Pensiero
R. Spaemann, Felicità e benevolenza, Vita e Pensiero
F. Scarry, Sulla bellezza e sull'essere giusti, Il saggiatore Milano.
P. Paris, On Form and the Possibility of Moral Beauty, "Metaphilosophy", 49 (5):711-729 (2018).
B. Gaut, Art , Emotion and Ethics, Oxford University press.
T. Chappell, Kalou Heneka, Knowing What To Do, Ch.7, Oxford University press.
S.G. Chappell, Duty, Beauty, and Booty: an Essay in Ethical Reappropriation in Ethics beyond the Limits: New Essays on Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, ed by S.G Chappell and M. Van Ackeren, Routledge.
D. Haybron, Happiness. A Very Short Introduction, Penguin.
NB: La scelta dei testi deve essere concordata con il docente del corso
Bibliografia per 9 CFU
Tutti dovranno leggere:
Campodonico, M. Croce, M.S. Vaccarezza, Etica delle virtù. Una introduzione, Carocci, Roma 2017.
e tre testi a scelta fra quelli del seguente elenco:
Tommaso d'Aquino, Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 145, Edizioni studio domenicano.
ANGELO CAMPODONICO (President)
ROBERTO CELADA BALLANTI
DANIELE ROLANDO
MARIA SILVIA VACCAREZZA
October 7th 2019
