- Docente: Luca Guidetti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 8773)
Learning outcomes
The aim is to introduce and discuss the theories developed around the issue of "being" in the history of philosophy. The purpose is to understand and analyze the ontological determinations in the various currents of Western thought (naturalism, idealism, realism, empiricism, rationalism, positivism, materialism, spiritualism, etc.). The tools to achieve this knowledge is the reading and the analysis of texts concerning the subjectivity and the objectivity in relation to the different senses of reality.
Course contents
PLATO'S ONTOLOGY BETWEEN LOGIC AND PSYCHOLOGY: THE PARMENIDES AND THE SOPHIST
The two most important "ontological" Dialogues of Plato will be examined, trying to highlight the relationship between unity and multiplicity of being, the division of being in kinds and the meaning that in Plato assume the notions of "Idea" , "Reality" and "Appearance".
Beginning and Hours: Period III, Monday, January 29, 2018. Lessons will be held every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 17-19, Classroom E, Via Zamboni 34, Bologna.
Readings/Bibliography
Obligatory Readings:
Platone, Parmenide, ed. by A. Zadro, in Opere, Laterza, Bari 1974, vol. I, pp. 517-575 (will be available in "teaching material")
Platone, Sofista, ed. by A. Zadro, in Opere, Laterza, Bari 1974, vol. I, pp. 359-436 (will be available in "teaching material")
Notes progressively deposited in the "teaching material".
Optional Readings (recommended for not attendings):
- F. Trabattoni, Platone, Carocci, Roma 2009.
- E. Paci, Il significato del Parmenide nella filosofia di Platone, Principato, Messina-Milano 1938.
- F. Fonterotta, Guida alla lettura del Parmenide di Platone, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1998.
- G. Movia, Apparenze, essere e verità. Commentario storico-filosofico al "Sofista" di Platone, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 1991.
- M. Heidegger, Il «Sofista» di Platone, Adelphi, Milano 2013.
Teaching methods
Lectures, reading and commentary on texts and on primary sources, discussion on specific issues.
Assessment methods
Oral test with verification of specific historical and philosophical knowledge and of the level of assimilation and processing critical-conceptual content (see "Evaluation board").
Assessment criteria and thresholds of evaluation:
30 cum laude: Excellent as to knowledge, terminology and critical expression.
30: Excellent, knowledge is complete, well articulated and correctly expressed, although with some slight faults.
27-29: Good, knowledge comprehensive and satisfactory, essentially correct expression .
24-26: Fairly good, knowledge present in significant points, but not complete and not always expressed with correctness.
21-23: Sufficient, knowledge is sometimes superficial, but the guiding general thread is included. Expression and articulation incomplete and often not appropriate
18-21:.Almost sufficient, but knowledge present only on the surface. The guiding principle is not included with continuity. The expression and articulation of the speech show important gaps.
<18: Not sufficient, knowledge absent or very incomplete, lack of guidance in discipline, expression seriously deficient. Exam failed.
Teaching tools
Overhead Projector with PC.
Links to further information
http://www.disciplinefilosofiche.it
Office hours
See the website of Luca Guidetti