- Docente: Marina Lalatta Costerbosa
- Credits: 6
- SSD: IUS/20
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 8773)
Learning outcomes
Basic knowledges, specific methodologies and critical abilities with regard to the most relevant issues in philosophy of law and human rights.
Course contents
On Human dignity and its violation
The course deals with the concept of human dignity.
The first part of the course focuses on the notion of dignity on the ground of two philosophical classics: Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant and On Liberty by john Stuart Mill. These texts are crucial in understanding the idea of human dignity and its social face.
I Semester: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 11-13
Room A - Centotrecento
Beginnig: September, 25 2017.
Readings/Bibliography
Immanuel Kant, La fondazione della metafisica dei costumi, Rizzoli, Milan, 1995.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty.
Jürgen Habermas, Il concetto di dignità umana e l’utopia realistica dei diritti dell’uomo, in Id., Questa Europa è in crisi, Laterza, Rom-Bari, 2012, p. 3-31.
Antonio Cassese, I diritti umani oggi, Laterza, Rom-Bari, 2005, Introduction and chap. 1, 2, 3, p. 3-58.
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars and discussion.
Assessment methods
Final oral examination.
Notes:
18-21 basic level
22-25 moderate level
26-28 good level
29-30 excellent level.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Marina Lalatta Costerbosa