2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

M-FIL/06 (HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

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

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

FRANCIONI GIOVANNI (titolare) - 6 ECTS

This course is intended for MA students who have gained no fewer than 6 ETCS in History of Early Modern Philosophy over the course of their BA curriculum. To fulfill such requirements is necessary in order to sit the exam.

This course is an introduction to the most important themes and the most influential tendences of thought in the Enlightenment, through the study of a selection of texts and of specific secondary literature.

Political Voltaire
The course is monographic, and it aims to reconstruct the Voltaire political thought through the analysis of his most significant works.

Lectures

Voltaire, Lettere filosofiche, Santarcangelo, Foschi, 2016;
Voltaire, Trattato sulla tolleranza, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2015;
Maria Laura Lanzillo, Voltaire. La politica della tolleranza, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2000.
Other texts by and about Voltaire will be provided during the lessons.

Those students who can not take part to the lectures will be asked to study, in addition to this list, further readings to be agreed with the teacher.

Oral examination