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MODERN ETHICS (LM)

CODE 65018
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
CREDITS
  • 9 cfu during the 1st year of 8465 METODOLOGIE FILOSOFICHE (LM-78) - GENOVA
  • 6 cfu during the 1st year of 8465 METODOLOGIE FILOSOFICHE (LM-78) - GENOVA
  • 9 cfu during the 2nd year of 8465 METODOLOGIE FILOSOFICHE (LM-78) - GENOVA
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    SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR M-FIL/03
    LANGUAGE Italian
    TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
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    SEMESTER 2° Semester
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    OVERVIEW

     

    Philosophical Ethics is not only the study and critical analysis of customs and institutions historically handed down, but it is especially a philosophically founded research of the Good aimed at the practice and the forming of honest ties. It is the tension of the mortal being towards the eternal, in the distinct but not unrelated ways of life: aesthetic, political, philosophical, religious, scientific. It is the wisdom of good death. It is, in short, the phenomenology of the eternal in the time of mortal existence.

    AIMS AND CONTENT

    LEARNING OUTCOMES

    Being able to analyze the origins of Ethics in Greek philosophy, and to question the idea of Ethics as the 'prime philosophy' in modern and contemporary philosophical currents. Getting acquainted with the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition and being able to inquire into the philosophical connections (from Kant onwards) between ethics and metaphysics, ethics and religion, ethics and ontology, ethics and politics, ethics and history. Developing one's independent, critical thinking, one's creative thinking, and the philosophical orienteering abilities needed to face challenges in every domain of life.

    AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

    At the end of the course the student should be able to: use the basic vocabulary of the discipline; assimilate the fundamental concepts in a critical and personal form;  discuss in an original way the contents, the evolutionary lines, the permanent problems.

    TEACHING METHODS

    Lessons will be held in presence. Attendance, although not compulsory, is recommended. Only those who attend lessons in presence will be deemed attending students. The teacher, upon specific request by single students, could allow them to access the recordings of the lessons via Teams at the end of the teaching. Those who request lessons are considered not attending-students.

     Non-attending students are required to add the following book to the indicated program: R. Celada Ballanti, La parabola dei tre anelli. Migrazioni e metamorfosi di un racconto tra Oriente e Occidente, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Roma 2017.

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    Contents for students who are taking the 6-CFU course

    Ethics and Theodicy.

    The teaching aims to analyze the question of theodicy in the transformation in an ethical key that it undergoes from Voltaire to Kant, keeping in the background the great synthesis of Leibniz's Essays on theodicy. 

    Contents for students who are taking the 9-CFU course

    Part I:Ethics and Theodicy

    The teaching aims to analyze the question of theodicy in the transformation in an ethical key that it undergoes from Voltaire to Kant, keeping in the background the great synthesis of Leibniz's Essays on theodicy. 

    Part II: Suffering and Suicide, starting with David Hume

    In the second part the lessons will focus on the problem of suicide, starting from the essay by D. Hume, until the contemporary perspectives of the problem. Some lessons will be held by prof. D. Venturelli and dr. Roberto Gennaro.

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    The reading list for this course, together with the lecturer's suggestions and instructions are available on the Italian version of the web page. 

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    ROBERTO CELADA BALLANTI (President)

    GERARDO CUNICO

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    February 21, 2023

    Class schedule

    MODERN ETHICS (LM)

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    The exam takes place in oral, dialogical form, and focuses mainly on authors and texts, themes and problems discussed during the lessons. The submission of a paper is optional and does not replace the oral exam.

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    In the final evaluation will be taken into consideration:

    the level of of the lexicon and of the basic notions of the discipline; the level of understanding of philosophical texts in their historical context, but also to in their supra-historical meaning; the ability to critically argue and discuss permanent questions and fundamental ethical questions in innovative and personal forms.

    Exam schedule

    Date Time Location Type Notes
    12/12/2022 10:00 GENOVA Orale
    17/01/2023 10:00 GENOVA Orale
    10/02/2023 10:00 GENOVA Orale
    09/05/2023 10:00 GENOVA Orale
    29/05/2023 10:00 GENOVA Orale
    14/06/2023 10:00 GENOVA Orale
    06/07/2023 10:00 GENOVA Orale
    14/09/2023 10:00 GENOVA Orale

    FURTHER INFORMATION

    Attendance and direct contact with the teacher are recommended.