Learning objectives
A sufficient acquaintance with the main topics of the philosophical debates in XVIth-XVIIIth centuries. Reading and learning ability, related mainly to philosophical texts; good acquaintance with philosophical terms and with different philosophical schools.
Course unit content
From general to specific: causality and finalism in the teleological judgement.
« But such a unity must be necessarily presupposed and assumed, for otherwise there would be no thoroughgoing connexion of empirical cognitions in a whole of experience. The universal laws of nature no doubt furnish such a connexion of things according to their kind as things of nature in general, but not specifically, as such particular beings of nature. Hence the Judgement must assume for its special use this principle a priori, that what in the particular (empirical) laws of nature is from the human point of view contingent, yet contains a unity of law in the combination of its manifold into an experience possible in itself—a unity not indeed to be fathomed by us, but yet thinkable», Immanuel Kant, Kant’s Critique of Judgement, translated with Introduction and Notes by J.H. Bernard (2nd ed. revised) (London: Macmillan, 1914). 1/7/2015. http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1217#Kant_0318_89
The principal aim of the lectures is to point out the place and the purpose of the teleological judgement in Kant’s philosophy
Full programme
In the first part the reading of some passages from the most important texts will provide a survey of the philosophical context of the topics dealt with in the second part of the course, devoted to a closer analysis Kant's Critique of Judgement, with a special attention to the teleological judgement.
Bibliography
Bibliography:
first part:
-Antology of philosophical texts from Renaissancce to I. Kant to download from the site of the course
or:
-a Handbook of Modern Philosophy; suggested handbooks:
a) Storia della Filosofia diretta da M. Dal Pra, vol VII: La filosofia moderna dal Quattrocento al Seicento (chap. 16-18, 20-21, 23-25, 31-32); vol. VIII: Il Settecento (chap. 8-10, 15), , Milano-Padova, Vallardi-Piccin Nuova Libraria 1999
b) P. Rossi-A. Viano, Storia della filosofia. 3. Dal Quattrocento al Seicento, Roma-Bari, Laterza 1995 (chap. XX-XXI); 4. Il Settecento, Roma-Bari, Laterza 1996 (chap. II, IV, XII-XXIV)
c) N. ABBAGNANO, Storia della filosofia, Torino Utet, oppure Milano TEA vari anni di edizione: chapters from Descartes a Kant.
second part:
- I. KANT, Critica del Giudizio, trad. di A. Gargiulo, introd. Di P. D’Angelo, Bari-Roma, Laterza 20084 («Classici della filosofia con testo a fronte»).
Suggested reading:
-F. MENEGONI, La Critica del giudizio di Kant. Introduzione alla lettura, Roma, Carocci editore 20133 («Quality Paperbacks, 225»)
-E. CASSIRER, Vita e dottrina di Kant, presentazione di M. DAL PRA, Firenze, La Nuova Italia 1977 («Il pensiero filosofico, 12»)
-L. SCARAVELLI, Scritti kantiani, Firenze, La Nuova Italia 1973 (Ia ed. 1968) («Strumenti. Ristampe anastatiche, 8»)
Assessment methods and criteria
paper and oral examination
Other information
news and didactic material in the web site of the course
