HISTORY OF ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHY - ADVANCED
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Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic year
2017/2018
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-FIL/06 (HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
PHILOSOPHY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
FRANCIONI GIOVANNI (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
This course is intended for MA students who have gained no fewer than 6 ETCS in History of Early Modern Philosophy. To fulfill such requirements is necessary in order to sit the exam.
Learning outcomes
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.
Course contents
Rousseau: state of nature and origin of inequality.
The course is monographic, and aims to illustrate the Rousseau’s thought, and particulary the Discourse of the Origin of Inequality Among Men (1755), which will be carefully commented.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discorsi. Sulle scienze e sulle arti - Sull’origine della disuguaglianza fra gli uomini, introduzione e note di Luigi Luporini, Milano, Rizzoli, 2007;
2. Annamaria Loche, Immagini dello stato di natura in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2003;
3. Gianni Francioni, Gli illuministi e lo Stato. I modelli politici fra utopia e riforma, Como-Pavia, Ibis, 2012.


To sit the exam, in addiction to the books listed above, students unable to attend the lectures will also be queried on Robert Wokler, Rousseau, Bologna, il Mulino, 2001.
Assessment methods
Oral
Further information
Oral
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