Unit THEORY OF SUBYECT AND OTHERNESS
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- GP004312
- Curriculum
- Filosofia della relazione tra giustizia e ambiente
- Teacher
- Marco Moschini
- Teachers
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- Marco Moschini
- Hours
- 54 ore - Marco Moschini
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Istituzioni di filosofia
- Academic discipline
- M-FIL/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course Substance and Subject: Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Metamorphoses of Ontology in Contemporary Thought; aims to explore the philosophical relationship between substance and the emergence of the modern subject through a comparative reading of Spinoza and Leibniz. The main objectives are: To analyze the contrast between Spinoza’s monistic and necessitarian ontology — which leaves no space for autonomous subjectivity — and Leibniz’s pluralist view of monads as dynamic centers of perception and desire. To critically assess the classical modern paradigm of the self-grounding subject (from Descartes to Kant), showing how both Spinoza and Leibniz offer alternative metaphysical frameworks that challenge the foundations of modernity. To engage with contemporary critical ontologism, especially as developed by Moretti-Costanzi, who rethinks the relation between substance and subject beyond the Cartesian rupture. To investigate the idea of subjectivity no longer as a foundation, but as a processual and dynamic effect of being, situated within an ontology of the relationship intra-worldly; To demonstrate how classical metaphysics can be reactivated as a living resource for rethinking subjectivity in times of ontological and political crisis.
- Reference texts
- B. Spinoza, Etica, con testo latino a fronte, Bompiani, Milano 2007 G.W. von Leibniz, Monadologia, Testo a fronte, Bompiani, Milano 2001 M. Moschini,Ontologia, Critica e Spirito Cristiano, Ed. Moralacchi UP, Perugia 2025
- Educational objectives
- a. The Students must prove their comprehension of the first phase of teaching and the capacity of promoting and exposing the original ideas on the classical philosophical texts.
b. The students must be able to apply the study argument in different and specific interdisciplinary studies.
c. The reflection and the application of independently constructed notions must be exposed properly.
d. The development of the articulated and specialized content must be the priority of the learning process in connection to the themes of the course.
e. The students have to show their comprehension ability, that has to be also independent, grounded and self-directed.
f. Design and development of philosophy teaching activities: illustration of the principles and methodologies for the construction of activities and more generally of a philosophy curriculum, also bearing in mind the needs of language enhancement and consolidation of the language practices necessary to achieve the training and education objectives in the disciplines of interest. - Prerequisites
- The appropriate comprehension and critical interpetation of the Western thought and culture (undergraduate level)
- Teaching methods
- seminars and didactical support
- Other information
- Support workshops during The class activities.
Please note that for students of Consulenza Pedagogica who mutate this exam from the Philosophy major are excluded from the handouts on Unamuno. These will instead be mandatory for 9 cfu philosophy students. - Learning verification modality
- The evaluation will be realized in the form of the final examination in which the examiner will consider:a)that the students have the articulated and detailed knowledge of the philosophical tradition – object of the courseb)that the students have developed the critical capacity of the interdisciplinary interconnection;c)that are able to communicate adequately and analyze the topics being studied during the course.There will be only one oral exam that will include also a reading and a text comprehension that is the object of study. The exam will be particularly accurate and will last about an hour. The final assessment of the examination will take into account all the objectives of the teaching course and all the exam parts will be judged in the same way. Great importance will be given also to the communication skills of the candidate.
In the instance where the student intends to take the examination in a year earlier than the one scheduled in the study plan, it is recommended to attend the cycle of lectures and to take the examination in the first useful call after the lectures have ended, thus respecting the semester in which the course is scheduled.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or DSA, visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- Substance and Subject: Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Metamorphoses of Ontology in Contemporary Thought; Course Summary: This course offers a philosophical investigation into the concept of substance and its relation to the emergence of the modern subject, through a comparative reading of Spinoza and Leibniz. We will examine the contrast between Spinoza’s monistic and necessitarian ontology—in which the order of nature coincides with the order of reason, leaving no room for autonomous subjectivity—and Leibniz’s pluralist vision of monads as reflective, dynamic centers of perception and desire. Both philosophers present a critical alternative to the classical modern paradigm of the self-grounding subject that dominates from Descartes to Kant. In this sense, Spinoza and Leibniz open the way for alternative metaphysical frameworks that challenge the very foundations of modernity. In the final part, the course enters into dialogue with the trajectory of contemporary critical ontologism, particularly as articulated by Moretti-Costanzi, who rethinks the relation between substance and subject beyond the Cartesian break. In this framework, subjectivity is no longer viewed as a foundation but as a processual and dynamic effect of being. Moretti-Costanzi’s critical ontologism proposes a re-appropriation of classical metaphysics through the concept of an ontology of the intra-wordly, where subjectivity emerges as an ethical tension between the immanence of being (with clear Spinozist resonances) and the irreducible singularity of forms (in dialogue with Leibnizian monadology). The course thus aims to show how classical metaphysics can be reactivated as a living resource for rethinking subjectivity in times of ontological and political crisis.
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