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Professor
Academic discipline: Storia della filosofia antica (M-FIL/07)
Field: Storia della filosofia
Type of training activity: Characterising

40 hours
of face-to-face activities

5 credits

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Learning objectives

development of critical-hermeneutic skills

Prerequisites

a. willingness to listen carefully; 
 
b. desire to enrich one’s personal cultural background

Course unit content

analysis of the various classic texts covered (in particolar Empedocles), moving through various periods of correlative philosophical historiography as well as on the basis of re-examining (deconstruction and reattribution of meanings) the language in which that thought is expressed

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Bibliography

i. Empedocle, Poema fisico 
 
II? Empedocle, Poema lustrale 
 
iii. Parmenide, Poema sulla natura, frr. 1-9 
 
iv. Giorgio Colli, La sapienza greca, vols. I and II 
 
v. Carlo Santaniello, Empedocle: uno o due cosmi, una o due zoogonie? 
 
vi. Theodor Gomperz, Empedocle, in I pensatori greci 
 
vii. W.K.C. Guthrie, Empedocles, in A History of Greek Philosophy 
 
viii. A. Martin-O. Primavesi, L?Empedocle de Strasbourg 
 
x. M. Dixsaut, L?Empedocle de Nietzsche 
 
xi. H. Munding, Zur Beweisfurung des Empedokles 
 
xii. L. Rossetti, Introduzione alla filosofia antica

Teaching methods

Teaching method: historical-deconstructionist and hermeneutic-critical 
 
 
 
Assessment method: based on the student’s ability to provide independent critique of texts, according to his or her actual familiarity with the material covered.

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HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY cod. 13012

Learning objectives

Prerequisites

Course unit content

Full programme

Bibliography

Teaching methods

Assessment methods and criteria

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HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
cod. 13012