HISTORY OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY
cod. 13016

Academic year 2024/25
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Pierfrancesco FIORATO
Academic discipline
Filosofia morale (M-FIL/03)
Field
Storia della filosofia e istituzioni di filosofia
Type of training activity
Basic
60 hours
of face-to-face activities
12 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Learning objectives

Direct acquaintance with one or more works of the philosophical tradition. Comprehension and contextualization of each work in its theoretical and historical dimensions. Development of ability to analyze and critically understand philosophical texts, and in particular to identify and evaluate argumentations, through guided reading and discussion of the work/s, or by individual study of the work/s.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Comparing two models of philosophical ethics: Aristotle and Kant

Full programme

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Bibliography

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Cambridge University Press


Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge University Press

Teaching methods

Taught lectures; readings of key texts

Assessment methods and criteria

Final oral examination

Other information

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