Unit THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY
- Course
- Philosophy and psychological science and techniques
- Study-unit Code
- 40990406
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Nicoletta Ghigi
- Teachers
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- Nicoletta Ghigi
- Hours
- 36 ore - Nicoletta Ghigi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Sector
- M-FIL/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Myth as hermeneutic topos, between imagination and existence.
- Reference texts
- REQUIRED TEXTS: 1. Vico G.B., La scienza Nuova, Bompiani 2012; 2. Kierkegaard S., Aut-Aut, Mondadori 2025; 3. Nussbaum M., La fragilità del bene, Il Mulino 2004; RECOMMENDED TEXTS: - Abbate, F. (2005), L’occhio della compassione, Studium. - Adinolfi I. (2008), Metamorfosi filosofiche di Antigone, in I. Adinolfi (ed.) La profondità della scena, Il Melangolo - Botturi, F. (1991), La sapienza nella storia. Giambattista Vico e la filosofia pratica, Vita e Pensiero; - Cusinato, G. (2025), Vuoto aurorale, Il Melangolo; - Fabro, C. (1957), Dall'essere all'esistente, Morcelliana, Brescia, 1957; Marietti 2004. - Ghigi, N. (2004), Wisdom Hidden in Myth and the True Vision of Pre-scientific Knowledge. A comparison between Vico and Husserl, in “Segni e Comprensione” XVIII, 53, pp. 31-42; - Jacobelli Isoldi, A. M. (1968), Myth in Vico's Thought, in AA.VV., Omaggio a Vico, Morano, Naples; - Nanetti E. (2021), The Modernity of Giambattista Vico between Myth and Metaphor, Pisa, ETS; - Pieretti, A. (1992), Beyond Confusion, Edizioni Dehoniane; - Pieretti, A. (2008), Theoretical Philosophy, La Scuola; - Regina, U. (2014), Kierkegaard, Brescia, La Scuola. TEXTS FOR INCOMING STUDENTS: - Verene D.Ph. (1992), Vico’s Science of Imagination, Cornell; - Wahl, J. (1938), Études Kierkegaardiennes (1938), Vrin, Paris, n. ed. 2006; - Nehamas, A. (1996), What should we expect from Reading, in “Salmagundi” 111, pp. 27-58. Specific references for working students and students with learning disabilities are published on UNISTUDIUM or, alternatively, agreed upon on a case-by-case basis with the instructor. Students with disabilities and/or learning disabilities are invited to visit the page dedicated to the tools and measures provided and to agree in advance on any necessary arrangements with the instructor (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa).
- Educational objectives
- The educational objectives are aimed at acquiring tools and skills and their critical individual use, which the teaching, divided into three parts, aims to convey to students and whose effective acquisition will be assessed in the final exam. The course also aims to achieve the following objectives:¿Critical analysis of the main teaching methodologies developed in philosophy education research, also with reference to the specific role of the teacher, the conceptual, epistemological, and didactic issues involved in teaching and learning the disciplines of interest, and in relation to the development of semiotic skills and the expansion of expressive and cognitive potential within the specific discipline.¿¿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 taking into account the need to enhance language skills and consolidate the linguistic practices necessary to achieve the training and educational objectives in the disciplines of interest.
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand the course content and achieve the learning objectives, students must have a solid knowledge of the history of philosophy and phenomenology, and be able to engage in a process of abstraction with regard to the historical and conceptual considerations that will be referred to during the course. Critical attention during lectures and the ability to find solutions to the problems that the topics covered will bring to light are essential. The teaching methods are divided as follows:¿1. Theoretical lectures, in which the fundamental topics of the course will be developed;¿2. Workshops and/or seminars, including a “Lectio magistralis” given by internationally renowned scholars dealing with topics related to the course.¿3. Optional possibility of a written exemption, in agreement with the students.
- Teaching methods
- The course will be held at the Fissuf Department. Students with disabilities and/or learning disabilities are invited to visit the page dedicated to the tools and measures provided and to make any necessary arrangements in advance with the instructor (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa).
- Other information
- The exam will be held at Prof. Ghigi's office, located at Via Aquilone 8, 2nd floor.
- Learning verification modality
- The main focus of assessment is on the acquisition of critical skills and the individual use of the methodologies and tools acquired during the course, through the critical and methodical reading of the texts indicated in the program and according to the phenomenological method illustrated during the lessons.In addition, the exam assesses the following aspects: 1. ability to apply knowledge and understanding, independence of judgment, understood as the ability to make independent judgments, arriving at coherent reflections on social, scientific, or ethical issues; 2. communication skills, understood as the ability to convey information, ideas, problems, and solutions to other interlocutors; 3. Learning skills, understood as the ability to progress in studies with a high degree of autonomy. The assessment of the skills acquired during the exam is measured on a scale of 30. The exam will consist of an oral test lasting approximately 30 minutes, during which the fundamental issues of the course will be discussed.¿¿If students wish to take the exam in a year earlier than that scheduled in their study plan, they are advised to attend the course and take the exam in the first available exam session after the course has ended, in accordance with the semester in which the course is scheduled. The EXAMINATION PROGRAMS FOR ATTENDING, NON-ATTENDING, AND ERASMUS STUDENTS will be published, together with the teaching materials, on the UNISTUDIUM PLATFORM. For further information, please contact the lecturer: nicoletta.ghigi@unipg.it¿¿"Students with SLD/disabilities are invited to contact the lecturer before the exam.¿For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or SLD, please visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Extended program
- The course aims to develop the concept of myth in relation to fantasy and existential reality, with the aim of highlighting its most pressing issues and the needs of contemporary humanity.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- 1-3-8.