2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

M-FIL/08 (HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

1st semester (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

CASAGRANDE CARLA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

It is useful and reccomanded to have passed the examen of History of Medieval Philosophy. In any case a previous knowledge of Latine Medieval Philosophy is required

The whole range of didactic goals as indicated for the three-year degree course is presumed to be acquired.
In the two-year specialistic course, the student will moreover have to display a very deep knowledge of a specific philosophical subject related to medieval thought. Such a knowledge must be obtained through an independent and reflective approach to learning and research (though supervised) in bibliographical and historical-critical terms, and must result in a written and oral paper on a particular theme connected to the subject selected year by year. The student must then demonstrate his/her capacity to critically assess the relevance and the arguments expressed by other students and teachers during class and seminars which constitute the course.

The subject of the course will be the debate on happiness, particularly in the thirteenth and fourteenth century. Texts of Augustine, Severinus Boethius, Boethius of Dacia, Thomas Aquinas, Dante will be examined.

Lectures and seminar groups

Basic texts of reference are:
- Boezio di Dacia, "De summo bono", trad. it. di G. Fioravanti in "Alfabeta", 59, aprile '84, pp. 19-20
-Tommaso d’Aquino, La somma teologica, I. II, qq. 1-5, ed. a cura dei Domenicani italiani, VIII, Salani, Firenze, pp. 34-161.

Bibliography :
Le felicità nel Medioevo, a cura di M. Bettetini e F. D. Paparella, Louvain-La Neuve 2005.
I. Sciuto, L'etica nel Medioevo, capp. VII-VIII, Torino 2007.
Further references will be provided during the course

Oral and writtem reports and final examination

Oral and writtem reports and final examination