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Professor
Academic discipline: Storia della filosofia (M-FIL/06)
Field: Storia della filosofia
Type of training activity: Characterising

80 hours
of face-to-face activities

10 credits

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Knowledge of basic concepts of political philosophy. Reading of someclassical texts of political philosophy. Development of the ability toread a philosophical text. Development of argumentation skills.

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The course will deal with the relationship between concepts of nature and political models, with reference to various moments in the history of thought and then to the contemporary debate on the subject. Particular interest will be given, in the historical-introductory part, to questions relating to the position of the social community in the natural cosmos, to the relationship between state of nature and civil state, individuality and natural right. This will be useful to clarify the anthropological definition of human nature with regard to the various political models and then to introduce critically the contemporary debate on the natural abilities assumed by the agent and on the politics of natural life (biopolitics).

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Bibliography

Unit A: General part 1) Aristotele, Politica, BUR, Milan, 2002, (books I-III) - Th. Hobbes, De Cive, Editori Riuniti, Rome, 2005 (Prefazione; Liberta; Potere) - Course Handout (L'agone degli sguardi. Materiali di storia della filosofia politica, Rome, 2006, in press) 2) M.C. Nussbaum, Capacita personale e democrazia sociale, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, 2003, pp. 1-102

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HISTORY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY cod. 00568

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HISTORY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
cod. 00568