AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to explore the main issues relating to the human person thematised in contemporary thought, taking it as a complex and multidimensional reality. Through problematisation, critical reflection and argumentative discussion, the aim is to promote an adequate discernment of the problematic issues concerning the person, his dignity and in particular the confrontation-relation with artificial devices, through the examination of some philosophical conceptions considered significant.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the student will have to:

1. know the main issues concerning the human person thematised by contemporary philosophical thought

2. understand the theoretical paradigm of reference of the positions presented and their existential and ethical implications

3. elaborate in a conscious, well-founded and critical manner one's own position, giving reasons for it with good arguments

The achievement of these educational objectives promotes the strengthening of some important transversal competences: functional literacy, personal and social competence, and the ability to learn to learn.

TEACHING METHODS

Lessons will be conducted favouring discussion and small group work, as much as possible mediated by participative methodologies (PBL, flipped classroom, etc.)

The activities with which the lessons will be conducted are PEER EVALUATION tools. These activities will enable the attending students to acquire an OPEN BADGE that will certify participation in a course aimed at the acquisition of soft skills related to the following key competences: functional literacy; personal; social; learning to learn.

Audio/video materials will be provided on Aulaweb to support the learning of students who, due to work commitments, are unable to attend the course.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The teaching will be developed in two stages: the first (MODULE 1) will be dedicated to the exploration of some significant passages of Sciacca's text, the purpose of which is to examine a philosophical position that claims to respond in an integral manner to questions concerning the person; the second (MODULE 2) will be aimed at a critical comparison with other perspectives of thought, in relation to the questions raised by Sciacca's text or others emerging in the contemporary socio-cultural moment.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Works to study:

1. M.F. Sciacca, L'uomo, questo "squilibrato", Orthotes, Napoli (in press)

2.  Choose one of these books: 

- C. Ciancio, G. Goisis, V. Possenti, F. Totaro, Persona. Centralità e prospettive, Mimesis, Milano 2022

- C. Caneva, I diversi modi di dire persona. Africa, Cina, Europa e India in dialogo, Mimesis, Milano 2023

- V. Possenti, Il nuovo principio persona, Armando, Roma 2013

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Start: February 2026

End: April 2026

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

A. Students that will attend the lessons

Two ongoing tests - a written text and a groupal inquiry - and final oral exam

B. Students that will not attend the lessons 

Oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral exam aims at verify:

1. subject's knoledge  

2. issues understanding and connecting

3. infering, debating, personal reworking