THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY
Oral examination.
Enhancing the capacity to philosophically analyze the notions of Life, Self-conscious Life and Form of Life and to inferentially articulate them in order to achieve an exhaustive understanding of the mind-body relationship, human cognition, social practices and the political critics.
The notions of life and form of life and their role in understanding human thought and social practices.
Aristotele: L’anima (Si consiglia l’edizione Bompiani curata da Movia).
Hegel: Scienza della logica II, capitoli su Teleologia e Vita.
Philippa Foot, La natura del bene (Il Mulino, 2007).
R. Jaeggi, Forme di vita e capitalismo (Rosemberg and Sellier, 2017).
Taught classes.
The course will focus the notions of life and form of life in Aristotle and Hegel and afterwards will deal with more recent elaborations of this topic. During the classes we will also investigate other texts and authors like the Nicomachean Ethics, I book, Kant, Wittgenstein and Anscombe. However, the knowledge of authors won't be required during the examination.
Teams code for remote participation to the classes: xc8aof5