OVERVIEW

The module is aimed at analyzing the genesis, the advancement and the evolution  of the ideas of peace and war in the History of Political Thought. It will particularly focus on authors, works and theories that, in reason of their significances and legacies, have marked the most relevant steps of the path that, from the ancient centuries till today, have developed around the political problem of the construction of peace.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Module A: The course aims at analysing the genesis, the development and the evolution of the ideas of peace and war in the history of political thought.

Particular attention will be dedicated to those authors, those texts and those schools of thought that, because of their significance, marked the most significant stages of the debate that, from its origins till today, has been focused on the political problem of the peace.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at allowing students to know and to comprehend the evolutionary paths of the ideas of peace and war in the History of Political Thought, through the contextualization and the analysis of the more significant theories.

TEACHING METHODS

The course consists of both frontal lessons and collective discussions.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Analysis of the ideas of peace and war in:

1) Homeric Poems

2) Ancient Greek Lyrics

3) Ancient Greek Theatre

4) The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)

5) De Civitate Dei (Augustine of Hippo)

6) De iure belli (Albericus Gentilis)

7) Summa Theologiae (Thomas Aquinas)

8) De Monarchia (Dante Alighieri)

9) Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)

10) Perpetual Peace: a Philosophical Sketch (Immanuel Kant)

11) The Economic Consequences of the Peace (John M Keynes)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Compulsory readings:

- A. Catanzaro - F. Coticchia, Al di là dell'arcobaleno. I movimenti pacifisti italiani tra ideologie e contro-narrazioni strategiche, Milano, VIta e Pensiero, 2018 (Chapter I, section 2, pp. 26-76; Chapter III, section 1, pp. 93-108).

At students' choice (two books for those who attend the course, three for those who do not):

- Hannah Arendt, Le origini del totalitarismo, Einaudi, 2009 (o altra edizione).

- Hannah Arendt, La banalità del male. Eichmann a Gerusalemme, Feltrinelli, 2013 (o altra edizione)

- Dante Alighieri, De Monarchia, Milano, Garzanti, 2007 (o altra edizione).

- Ernesto Balducci, L’uomo planetario, Firenze, Giunti Editore, 2005 (o altra edizione).

- Aldo Capitini, Elementi di un’esperienza religiosa, (qualsiasi edizione).

- Erasmo da Rotterdam, Il lamento della pace, a cura di F. Cinti, Milano, Bur, 2005 (o altra edizione).

- Eschilo, I Persiani (qualsiasi edizione).

- Ugo Grozio, Il diritto di guerra e di pace. Prolegomeni e libro I, Padova, Cedam, 2010 (o altra edizione).

- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, capitoli XIII, XIV, XV, XVII, XVIII, in A. PACCHI (a cura di), Hobbes. Leviatano, Roma-Bari,    Laterza, 2011 (o altra edizione)

- Immanuel Kant, Per la pace perpetua, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2013 (o altra edizione).

- John Mainard Keynes, Le conseguenze economiche della pace, Milano, Adelphi, 2007 (o altra edizione).

- Niccolò Machiavelli, Dell’arte della guerra (qualsiasi edizione).

- Lorenzo Milani, L’obbedienza non è più una virtù, Milano, Chiarelettere, 2012 (o altra edizione).

- Angelo Roncalli, Pacem in terris, (qualsiasi edizione).

- Henry D. Thoreau, La disobbedienza civile, a cura di G. Gerevini, Milano, La Vita Felice, 2011.

- Lev Tolstoj, Guerra e rivoluzione, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2015.

- Tucidide, La Guerra del Peloponneso, libro V.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ANDREA CATANZARO (President)

FABRIZIO COTICCHIA (President)

CARLO MORGANTI

CARLOTTA STEGAGNO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester

Class schedule

PEACE AND WAR IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Module A: oral exam.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam is aimed at assessing the acquired skills by the students in analysing the political ideas and political theories dealing with peace and war from a critical perspective and in using them in comprehending contemporary world politics.

Exam schedule