Unit ETHICS, HUMAN RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- A003514
- Curriculum
- World religions and philosophy
- Teacher
- Serena Meattini
- Teachers
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- Serena Meattini
- Hours
- 36 ore - Serena Meattini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Istituzioni di filosofia
- Academic discipline
- M-FIL/03
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Virtues Ethic; applied Ethics
- Reference texts
- 1) Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Testo greco a fronte, a cura di C. Mazzarelli, Bompiani, 2000 (only the pages indicated by the teacher during the lessons and in Unistudium page).
2) A. MacIntyre, Dopo la virtù. Saggio di teoria morale, Armando Editore, Roma 2007 (only the pages indicated by the teacher during the lessons and in Unistudium page).
3) A. Fabris (a cura di), Etiche applicate. Una guida, Carocci, Roma 2020.
The teacher will provide additional materials and instructions during the course of the lessons. - Educational objectives
- Student must acquire critical awareness of the main points of argument characterizing the debate around the notion of virtue and the main thematic areas in which applied ethics is oriented. It is expected: the acquisition of the philosophical contents of the discipline and the methodology of research, reading and interpretation of philosophical texts; the development of the ability of elaborative-critical and interpretative orientation.
- Prerequisites
- not required
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, seminars and exercises on texts.
- Other information
- Attendance is not compulsory but highly recommended. The detailed program and additional information (reference texts and readings proposed during the lessons) can be found in the portal Unistudium (https///www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/).
- Learning verification modality
- written and oral exam
- Extended program
- The course aims to deepen the notion of virtue, from the Aristotelian formulation to MacIntyre, with reference to some areas characterizing the applied ethics. It will be proposed a commented reading of parts taken from the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle and After the virtue of MacIntyre, with reference to themes and issues that distinguish the debate in the application.