2015/2016

2016/2017

DM270

M-FIL/06 (HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

FRANCIONI GIOVANNI (titolare) - 6 ECTS

The students who sit the exam of History of Early Modern Philosophy -b should demonstrate a basic understanding of the philosophical thought of the XV-XVIII centuries.

The course will be focused on a theme, a text or an author of particular importance for early modern philosophy, and will explore it through a critical analysis of works, of methodological issues and of the most important interpretations.

State of nature and political society in Hobbes

This course is at a monographic level. It aims to reading and interpreting the most significant excerpts of the work by Thomas Hobbes.

Lectures

Hobbes, De cive, Rome, Editori Riuniti University Press, 2014;
Domenico Fisichella, Alla ricerca della sovranità. Sicurezza e libertà in Thomas Hobbes, Rome, Carocci, 2008.
Other texts by and about Hobbes will be provide during the lessons

Oral examination