- Docente: Riccardo Caporali
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-FIL/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Philosophy (cod. 0957)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)
Learning outcomes
Students are expected to acquire knowledge of the main issues of moral philosophy and their relationship with metaphysics and politics.
Course contents
Course title: Philosophers and equality.
From the vantage point of the history of moral philosophy, the following key topics will be addressed: conceptualizations of equality; equality as a value (or non-value); ancient inequalities, modern inequalities.
Timetable: I semester, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 9-11. Aula II, Via Zamboni 38. Lessons are scheduled to start on Monday 3 October.
Readings/Bibliography
I. S. Cremaschi, Breve storia dell’etica, Roma, Carocci, 2012 (i capp. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17-21, 26-29).
II. Two of the following, one for each group (eg. Plato, Vegetti AND Rousseau, Starobinski).
First group of authors:
1) Platone
- Repubblica, trad. it. di F. Sartori, Introduzione di M. Vegetti, Note di B. Centrone, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997.
- M. Vegetti, Guida alla lettura della «Repubblica» di Platone, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1999.
2) Aristotele
- Politica (any edition).
- G. Bien, La filosofia politica di Aristotele, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000/2.
3) Paolo di Tarso:
- Lettere, a cura di G. Barbaglio, Milano, Rizzoli, 1997.
- S. Breton, San Paolo. Un ritratto filosofico, Brescia, Morcelliana, 1990.
4) Tommaso d'Aquino:
- Scritti politici, a cura di A. Passerin d'Entreves e R. Spiazzi, Milano, Massimi ed., 1985, pp. 7-73 e 78-230.
- S. Vanni Rovighi, Introduzione a Tommaso d'Aquino, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Second group of authors:
1) T. Hobbes:
- Leviatano (any edition).
- M. Reale, La difficile uguaglianza. Hobbes e gli animali politici: passione, morale, società, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1991.
2) J.-J. Rousseau:
- Discorso sull'origine e i fondamenti della disuguaglianza;
- Del contratto sociale (any edition).
- J. Starobinski, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. La trasparenza e l'ostacolo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1982.
3) J.S. Mill:
- Sulla libertà, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2009.
- La servitù delle donne, Lanciano, Carabba, 2011.
- M.T. Pichetto: - Verso un nuovo liberalismo. Le proposte politiche e sociali di J.S. Mill, Milano, Angeli, 1996.
4) K. Marx:
- Questione ebraica, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1996.
- L'ideologia tedesca. I. Feuerbach, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1967, pp. 3-70.
- N. Bobbio, Eguaglianza e egualitarismo, Roma, Armando, 1978.
N.B: Course-attending students are free to agree upon different requested readings with the teacher.
Teaching methods
The course will consist of frontal lessons; sources will be commented and discussed and the history of moral philosophy synthetically reconstructed. Teacher-led discussions will be encouraged.
Assessment methods
1. Written test on S. Cremaschi, Breve storia dell’etica. Only those who pass the written test are allowed to take the oral 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.
Office hours
See the website of Riccardo Caporali