Course teached as: B030369 - FILOSOFIA MORALE 1 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in PHILOSOPHY
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course is an introduction to moral philosophy, with in-depth study of the main categories of ethics. The central concepts and topics that constitute the sphere of metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics will be examined.
M. De Caro, S.F. Magni, M.S. Vaccarezza, Le sfide dell’etica, Mondadori Education.
Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, Laterza.
D. Hume, Trattato sulla natura umana, Laterza.
I. Kant, Fondazione della metafisica dei costumi, UTET.
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The complete list of books will be published on Moodle.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge of contemporary philosophical ethics and the ability 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, guided discussion on classical texts, voluntary written papers
Further information
None
Type of Assessment
The exam will consist of an oral test of about 30 minutes. The purpose of the exam is 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
Title: "Introduction to Ethics"
The course aims to provide the basic knowledge in the field of moral philosophy. In the first part, the main partitions of ethics (metaethics, normative ethics, applied ethics), the relationship between descriptive and normative ethics, the main contemporary metaethical theories, some notions of applied ethics (especially bioethics) will be analyzed. In the second part of the course, the main concepts will be introduced and elucidated by reading some parts of classics of moral philosophy: parts of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", the third book of D. Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature" and I. Kant's "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals".