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B026288 - MORAL PHILOSOPHY
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Academic Year 2020-21
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-FIL/03 - MORAL PHILOSOPHY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
22/02/2021 ⇒ 28/05/2021
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course consists is an introduction to moral philosophy, with particular reference to contemporary ethics. The introductory part will be accompanied by a commentary on some classical texts of the discipline.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Demetrio Neri, Filosofia morale. Manuale introduttivo, Guerini Scientifica, 2013 (II edition)
- David Hume, Ricerca sui principi della morale, Laterza (An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals) or Aristotle, Etica Nicomachea, libri 1-5 (Nichomachean Ethics, books 1-5).
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge in contemporary philosophical ethics. Students should be able to understand and use appropriately the fundamental concepts of moral philosophy. The aim of the course will be to provide tools to reach an independent and mature judgment on the moral issues addressed and to be able to read a classical text of the discipline.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lectures and guided discussion on classical texts
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Type of Assessment
The final test will be oral. It aims to verify the correct assimilation of knowledge, the ability to master the philosophical vocabulary and to orient oneself in the interpretation of a classical text.
Course program
The course aims to provide the basic notions in the field of moral philosophy. The first part of the course will be devoted to analysing the large partitions of ethics (metaethics, normative ethics, applied ethics), the relationship between descriptive ethics and normative ethics, the main contemporary metaethical theories, some notions of applied ethics (in particular bioethics). In the second part of the course, the main concepts will be introduced and elucidated by reading two classics of virtue ethics tradition, which show similarities but also significant differences with respect to how moral life is conceived: Aristotle’s "Nicomachean Ethics" and David Hume’s "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals".