2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

M-FIL/06 (HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

(22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)

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.

A reading of Vico's New Science.

This course is at a monographic level, i.e. is focused on a single author. It aims at reading and interpreting the most significant excerpts of the work by Giambattista Vico.

Lectures

1. G. Vico, Principi di Scienza Nuova, Milan, Mondadori (Nuovi Oscar Classici), 2011;
2. P. Cristofolini, La "Scienza Nuova" di Vico. Introduzione alla lettura, Rome, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1995 (new edition in print).

Oral examination