Unit PHILOSOPHY OF KNOWLEDGE
- Course
- Philosophy and psychological science and techniques
- Study-unit Code
- 40589106
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Marco Casucci
- Teachers
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- Marco Casucci
- Hours
- 36 ore - Marco Casucci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Academic discipline
- M-FIL/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Towards an "Integral Knowledge": Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Solov'ëv.
- Reference texts
- Schopenhauer: The World as will and representation (I and II book), Cambridge Un. Press; last ed. Heidegger: The Question on Technology and other essays; Harper & Sons, last ed. V. Solov'ev: The Heart of Reality: Essays on Beauty, Love, and Ethics; Un. of Notre Dame Press, lat. ed.
- Educational objectives
- - knowledge and understanding - applying knowledge
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand the issues of teaching it is necessary that the student has a solid knowledge of the history of philosophy and knows how to relate to abstract conceptual. Knowing these two issues is absolutely indispensable for the student who wants to follow the course with profit.
- Teaching methods
- 1. Theoretical lessons face-to-face 2. Seminars
- Learning verification modality
- The examination will be oral examination with a duration of 30 minutes. In case a student intends to anticipate his/her exam in a year preceding the one it is scheduled in his/her curriculum, it is recommended to anticipate as well the attendance of the lessons and to schedule the exam in the first useful session after the lessons have been concluded.
- Extended program
- The aim of the program is to provide students with a path through the 'levels' of knowledge, from the transcendental dimension to the spiritual one, by means of a radical critique of the foundations of thought.