- Docente: Riccardo Caporali
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-FIL/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
History (cod. 0962)
Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 9216)
Course contents
Course title: The Consistency of Good
the course aims at investigating the main formulations of a crucial concept in classical and Christian philosophy and its crushing in the modern age.
Timetable: I semester, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 9-11. Aula V, Via Zamboni 38. Lessons are scheduled to start on Monday 2 October.
Readings/Bibliography
I.
R. Caporali, Uguaglianza, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012.
T. Hobbes, Leviatano (any edition).
N. Bobbio, Thomas Hobbes, Torino, Einaudi.
II. One of the following groups:
1. - Platone, Repubblica trad. it. di F. Sartori, Introduzione di M. Vegetti, Note di B. Centrone, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
- M. Vegetti, Guida alla lettura della Repubblica di Platone, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
2. - Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea (any edition).
- Aristotele, Politica (any edition).
- J.L. Ackrill, Aristotele, Il Mulino.
3. - Agostino, L'ordine (any edition).
- Agostino, La natura del Bene (si consiglia la versione Bompiani, a cura di G. Reale).
- La città di Dio, libro XIX.
- É. Gilson, Introduzione allo studio di Sant'Agostino, Milano, Marietti ed.
4. - Tommaso d'Aquino, L'ente e l'essenza (any edition).
- 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.
- E. Berti, Il bene in Tommaso d'Aquino, in «Filosofia Politica», II (1988), n. 2, pp. 323-343.
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 Riccardo Caporali, Uguaglianza. 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