THEORY OF ETHICS AND POLITICS
TEORIE DELLA MORALE E DELLA POLITICA
Tolerance as virtue. Ethics and politics in Baruch Spinoza
La tolleranza come virtù. Etica e politica in Baruch Spinoza
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2016/2017 | 6 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Daniela Bostrenghi | See: distum.uniurb.it |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course will focus on a theoretical investigation of the main ethical and political implications of all the arguments that will be addressed. The objective is to acquire technical language and enhancing reading, comprehension and commentating abilities of philosophical material. The student will acquire the knowledge useful to deal with fundamental conceptual conundrums.
Program
Continuing a project started last year (2015/2016), the lectures will focus on the different conceptions of "tolerance", term that political language inherited from religion modifying its meaning, time-by-time, until it acquired the positive acceptation of "respecting" different point of views in the pluralist world of values. In this regard, the pages of Spinoza's Ethica and Tractatus theologico-politicus, will offer to students ideas for reflections on a problem that is still actual and debated, increasingly fundamental in the light of the recent happenings.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding:
The graduates must be able to: comprehend and illustrate elementary and intermediate philosophical material; deal with classical problems from history and theory of philosophy, ethics and politics; use bibliographical and informational instruments that are relevant to the subject; know the problems of the subject with critical regard.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
It is expected an active collaboration with both the permanent seminar "Spinoza e il pensiero filosofico moderno" and the course in History of Philosophy (professor Cristina Santinelli).
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures and seminars.
- Attendance
It is required a regular attendance to the course (equal to AT LEAST 2/3 of the lectures). If the student does not attend to the course, he must refer, for the course material, to the "NO attendance" section.
- Course books
A. Philosophical material
Spinoza, Trattato teologico-politico, Prefazione e capp. XVI-XX, traduzione e commenti di A. Droetto ed E. Giancotti Boscherini, Postfazione di P. Totaro, Einaudi, Torino 2007
Spinoza, Pagine scelte, a cura di P. Cristofolini e I. Gaspari, ETS, Pisa 2015.
B. Critical material
AT LEAST THREE of the following:
· F. BIASUTTI, Aspetti della critica spinoziana alla religione, "Verifiche", 6, 1977, pp. 731-754 (rist. con il titolo Filosofia e critica della religione, in Id., Prospettive su Spinoza, Pubblicazioni di Verifiche, Trento 1990, pp. 111-136).
· D. BOSTRENGHI, "Sragionare con la ragione". Immaginazione e follia nell'opera di Spinoza, “Etica & Politica”, vol. XVI (2014), pp. 10-25.
· E. GIANCOTTI, Religione e politica in Spinoza, in Id., Studi su Hobbes e Spinoza, a cura di D. Bostrenghi e C. Santinelli, Bibliopolis, Napoli 1995, pp. 325-340
· Id., Il dio di Spinoza, ivi, pp. 165-179.
· F. MIGNINI, La dottrina spinoziana della religione razionale, “Studia Spinozana”, XI, pp. 53-80.
· Id., Spinoza: oltre l’idea di tolleranza?, in M. Sina (a cura di), La tolleranza religiosa. Indagini storiche e riflessioni filosofiche, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 1991, pp. 163-196.
Further references will be provided during the course.
- Assessment
It is required a regular attendance to the course (equal to AT LEAST 2/3 of the lectures). If the student does not attend to the course, he must refer, for the course material, to the "NO attendance" section.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Attendance
It is required that the student makes contact with the lecturer AT LEAST two months in advance.
- Course books
All the material reported at point (A) and (B) in the section "course material" plus ONE of the following (C).
L.Lanzillo, Tolleranza, Il Mulino, Bologna 2001.
E. Balibar, Spinoza e la politica, ManifestoLibri, Roma 1996 (Puf, Paris 1985)
- Assessment
Oral exam on all the material at point (A), (B) and (C). Optional essay which has to be agreed upon with the lecturer in advance.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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