Course teached as: B010998 - STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA ANTICA Second Cycle Degree in PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to introduce the students to the study of fundamental philosophical texts and issues from classical antiquity, considered with respect to their historical genesis and fortune as well as to their conceptual substance.
SECONDARY LITERATURE
- D. Sedley, Stoic Physics and Metaphysics, in K. Algra, J. Barnes, J. Mansfeld and M. Schofield, The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, Cambridge 1999, 382-411.
HANDBOOKS
- C. Esposito, P. Porro, Le avventure della ragione, Roma/Bari (Laterza ) 2014, vol. 1 pp. 1-233.
- A. Broadbent, Philosophy for Graduate Students. Metaphysics and Epistemology, New York / Oxford (Routledge) 2016.
Further readings will be suggested during the course.
Learning Objectives
- Knowledge: students will learn the main aspects of the ancient philosophical doctrines which are the subject matter of the course.
- Skills: students will hone (in comparison with their achievements during the 3-year degree course) their ability to compare, assess, and expound different interpretations of a philosophical text, or solutions to a philosophical problem; to understand and use appropriately some technical terminology; to make use of relevant bibliograhical resources.
- Competence: students will develop further their ability to analyse philosophical texts and issues both from a historical perspective (i.e. with regard to genesis, development, and fortune) and with respect to their conceptual substance.
Prerequisites
None.
Teaching Methods
Lectures; discussion.
Further information
Students will be required to consult bibliography in English.
Type of Assessment
- 4 points out of 30 are assigned to a written paper on a subject and bibliography to be agreed upon with the lecturer. The paper must be submitted one week before the oral examination. Marks vary from 1 (= acceptable) to 4 (= excellent). If the paper is assessed as not acceptable no mark is assigned and the student cannot proceed to the oral examination.
- 26 points out of 30 are assigned to the oral examination. Students who achieve the total mark of 30/30 are eligible for honours.
Both the written paper and the oral examination will aim at ascertaining whether and to what extent the course's learning objectives (see "Learning Objectives") have been achieved.
Course program
COURSE: An introduction to Stoic philosophy: philosophy of language, physics and metaphysics.
We shall examine the Stoic doctrines - considering them also in relation to those of their predecessors and adversaries - by reading and commenting on the ancient testimonies.