00393 - Moral Philosophy

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Riccardo Caporali
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: M-FIL/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Riccardo Caporali (Modulo 1) Pia Campeggiani (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 1); In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 0957)

Course contents

Students are expected to acquire knowledge of the main issues of moral philosophy and their relationship with metaphysics and politics.

Readings/Bibliography

A. AUTHORS:

1. Platone,  Gorgia , a cura di F. Adorno, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007.

2. T. Hobbes,  Elementi di legge naturale e politica , a cura di A. Pacchi, Firenze, Sansoni, 2004.

 

B. : SECONDARY LITERATURE

3. R. Caporali,  Uguaglianza , Bologna, il Mulino, 2012.

4. M. Vegetti,  Quindici lezioni su Platone , Torino, Einaudi, 2003.

5. M. Reale,  La difficile uguaglianza. Hobbes e gli animali politici moderni: passioni, morale, società , Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1991.

 

Teaching methods

The course will consist of frontal lessons; authors' works will be commented and the history of moral philosophy synthetically reconstructed. Student-led discussions will be encouraged.

Assessment methods

1) General part of the course: written test. Only students who have passed the written test are allowed to take the second part of the exam.

2) Final viva voce. Course-attending students can discuss alternative readings with the teacher. Students will be evaluated on the basis of their knowledge of assigned texts and their ability to critically discuss authors' works and historical issues. Students are required to bring with them the texts they have used to prepare the exam.

Teaching tools

Required readings (see bibliography), slides, lecture notes.

Office hours

See the website of Riccardo Caporali

See the website of Pia Campeggiani