Unit PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Course
Philosophy and ethics of relationships
Study-unit Code
A001177
Curriculum
Didattico
Teacher
Nicoletta Ghigi
Teachers
  • Nicoletta Ghigi
Hours
  • 54 ore - Nicoletta Ghigi
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2024
Offered
2024/25
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Istituzioni di filosofia
Academic discipline
M-FIL/03
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The metaphysics as first philosophy
Reference texts
I REQUIRED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. Kant, "La critica della Ragion Pura";
2. Husserl, "Meditazioni cartesiane";
3. Heidegger, "Che cos'è metafisica?"/"Introduzione alla metafisica".

II Other Bibliography:
Costa V, Franzini E, Spinicci P., "Fenomenologia", Einaudi, Torino;
Costa V., "L’assoluto e la storia. L’Europa a venire", Morcelliana, Brescia 2023;
Di Somma A, "Metafisica e Lichtung nel pensiero di Martin Heidegger", Armando, Roma 2017;
Dottarelli L., "Kant e la metafisica come scienza", Roma, Erre Emme Edizioni, 1995.
Ghigi N, "La metafisica in Husserl", FrancoAngeli, Milano 2007;
Guerra A, "Introduzione a Kant", Laterza, Bari 2010.
Husserl E., Grenzprobleme der Phänomenologie. Analysen des Unbewussteseins und der Istinkte. Mataphysik. Spätetik. Texte aus dem Nachlass (1908-1937), in “Husserliana” XLII, a cura di R. Sowa und T. Vongehr, Springer, Dordrdrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London 2014;
Vattimo G, "Introduzione a Heidegger". Bari, Laterza, 1991;

III. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR INCOMING STUDENTS
Kemp Smith N., Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.Eigler G., Metaphysische Voraussetzungen in Husserls Zeitanalysen, Anton Hain KG, Meisenheim am Glan 1961;
Hartmann K., Metaphisics in Husserlian Phenomenology, in «Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology» 16, n.3 (1985), pp. 279-293;
Gabellieri E., De la métaphysique à la phénoménologie une „releve¿?, in «Revue Philosophique de Louvain» 4 (1996), pp. 625-645.

Working students and students with specific learning disorders can contact directly the Professor.
Educational objectives
The course aims the following learning' results, whose acquisition will be evaluated in the examination:
- Knowledge of the fundamental lines of philosophical position of Kierkegaard, Scheler and Kurzweil.
- Acquisition of tools and skills of the phenomenological concept of anthropology,
- Ability to apply tools acquired in a critical and individual way.
Prerequisites
In order to understand the content of teaching, it is necessary that the student has an appropriate knowledge of the history of philosophy and of phenomenology, and knows how to make an atractive process of historical and conceptual considerations. Indispensable is a critical attention during lessons and an ability to find solutions to problems.
Teaching methods
1. Theoretical lessons face-to-face
2. Seminars and/or Laboratoty (Lectio magistralis)
Other information
The course will be by Palazzo Peiro, via dell'Aquilone 8.
Learning verification modality
he main object of assessment concerns the acquisition of the critical capacity and individual use of the methodologies and tools acquired during the course, through the critical and methodical reading of the texts indicated in the syllabus and according to the phenomenological method illustrated during the course of the lectures.In addition, the test verifies the following aspects: 1. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding, autonomy of judgement, understood as the ability to produce autonomous judgements, arriving at coherent reflections on social, scientific or ethical issues; 2. Communication skills, conceived as the ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to other interlocutors; 3. Learning ability, understood as the ability required to progress in studies with a high degree of autonomy. The examination will take the form of a thirty-minute oral test in which the fundamental issues of the course will be covered.
In the event that the student intends to sit the exam in a year prior to the year scheduled in the study plan, it is recommended that he/she attends the cycle of lectures and takes the exam in the first useful call after the lectures have ended, thus respecting the semester of the teaching schedule.

Students with disabilities and/or SLDs are invited to visit the page on tools and measures and to agree in advance on what is necessary with the professor. (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa)
Extended program
The main purpose of the course is to reflect on the possibilities of metaphysics and its limitations. From a practical point of view, however, this reflection aims to develop through metaphysical thinking a possibility for a new ethics based on an anthropology of the person.
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
Code 3, 4, 16.
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