Unit PARADIGMS OF PRACTICAL RATIONALITY
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- GP005044
- Curriculum
- World religions and philosophy
- Teacher
- Luigi Cimmino
- Teachers
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- Luigi Cimmino
- Hours
- 54 ore - Luigi Cimmino
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Istituzioni di filosofia
- Academic discipline
- M-FIL/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
- Contents
- After a brief introduction dedicated to the concepts that generally characterize the ethical dimension as such, the course intends to introduce the student to the main paradigms that, beyond the specific differences, distinguish the ethical debate within contemporary thought.
- Reference texts
- For foreign students:
Lecture notes on the first part of the course, provided to students at the end of the lessons.
Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, Paperback 2013, ISBN 9780674072251.
or by choice
Christine Koorsgard, The Sources of Normativity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN: 978-0521559607 - Educational objectives
- The course aims at giving the students general and introductive information about the main paradigms of contemporary moral philosophy, illustrated and more closely examined – in addition to the notes provided by the professor - through the reading of some chapters of A. MacIntyre’s text above mentioned.
- Prerequisites
- None.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons. Focused on the topics mentioned above, it is during class hours that they are discussed in depth argumentative structures difficult to find in the manuals of moral philosophy. We recommend, if possible, the frequency of lessons.
- Other information
- Frontal lessons. Focused on the topics mentioned above, it is during class hours that they are discussed in depth argumentative structures difficult to find in the manuals of moral philosophy. We recommend, if possible, the frequency of lessons.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination. The course does not include intermediate tests and may be supplemented by seminar activities aimed above all at integrating the topics developed during the lessons.
- Extended program
- After a brief introduction dedicated to the concepts that generally characterize the ethical dimension as such, the course intends to introduce the student to the main paradigms that, beyond the specific differences, distinguish the ethical debate within contemporary thought. In this way, the general concepts that define the realist or Aristotelian paradigm will be illustrated and discussed first, then move on to the emotionivist or Humean paradigm and conclude with the prescriptivist or Kantian paradigm. For the first part, the notes relating to the lessons will be distributed free of charge at the end of the course. In the second part of the course, through the critical examination of a contemporary text belonging to the realist conception - A. MacIntyre, After virtue. Moral theory essay, Armando, Rome 2007 - concepts and topics illustrated in the first part of the course will be studied in depth.