Unit ONTOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS OF RELATIONS
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- A006210
- Curriculum
- Filosofia
- Teacher
- Marco Moschini
- Teachers
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- Marco Moschini
- Hours
- 54 ore - Marco Moschini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2026
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Sector
- PHIL-01/A
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- 1. The relationship between ontology and metaphysics as a fundamental core of Western thought, configured as an inquiry into the structure of being and the conditions of its intelligibility.
2. The Platonic foundation of this question in the five “highest kinds” (being, same, other, rest, motion), understood as the original horizon for thinking reality.
3. The transmission and reworking of this framework within the metaphysical tradition, up to its reprise in Hegelian idealism.
4. The Hegelian speculative synthesis, in which the dialectic between identity and difference, stasis and becoming, leads to the rearticulation of ontology within the movement of the concept. - Reference texts
- Platone, Sofista, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2019 (anche versione ebook); G.W.F. Hegel, La scienza della logica, antologia a cura di V. Verra, Orthote, Napoli-Salerno 2023. Course materials may also be provided by the professor.
- 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. 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
- The course addresses the relationship between ontology and metaphysics as one of the fundamental cores of Western thought, understood as an inquiry into the structure of being and the conditions of its intelligibility. The starting point will be Plato’s Sophist, in which the question of being is articulated through the five “highest kinds” – being, same, other, rest, and motion – as original determinations of reality and as the horizon within which reality becomes thinkable.
On this basis, the course traces the transmission and reworking of these categories within the metaphysical tradition, highlighting the persistence of problems related to the relation between identity and difference, permanence and becoming, as well as between finite and infinite, and between individuals and totality. Particular attention will be devoted to Hegelian idealism, in which, in the Science of Logic, these oppositions find a speculative synthesis: ontology is thus rearticulated within the movement of the concept, revealing the dynamic and processual character of being. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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