HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY I

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

FS4250

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

LUCCHETTA Giulio

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

102

Prerequisites:

nothing

Objectives

The pourposes are; to known texts of ancient authors, in order to assume the specific political language, in distiction from these in use in other contexts; to understand the mode of logic and scientific tools applied in the word of human facts underling the difference with the physical reality; to put problems and solutions in the proper historical context; on the contrary, to see what kind of possibility there is to be applied in new context; to characterize polical language strategy: to identify the goals of an argomentation; to develop critical capacity to understand what is said explicity and what is only suggested; to distinguisch a paralogism and a fake argomentation; to feel when a common opinion is assumed to falsify and why some authos or some events are quoted.

Contents

Polis in the tempest: identity and emargination in Aristophanes, Aristoteles and Dyo of Prusa.
Starting from the lecture of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in wich itis shown the way of discrimination that Europe is ready to export in the New World, it is possible find the origins of these social dynamics in the organisation of community as described in the analysis in the Aristotle’s Politics. Through the confrontation between idealist town planners (Hyppodamus, Falea, Plato) and the criticism of the comedian Aristophanes is possible to distinguish aristotelian arguments from current doxai, that must be destroyed by dialectic confutation. Regarding the rules of political live, Dyo of Prusa testifies what survives to Athen and Aristotle in the Ellenistic period.

Extended Syllabus

The traditional overlook on the world of ancient cosmogonies collapses when a human knowledge is developed around humans problems, acts and behaviours inside the aristotelian world system that let draw a specific learning field, politics, with it’s own methodology that will influence following political theories. Between the firm dogmatism of ancient idealistic town planner (Hyppodamus, Falea, Plato), the relativism of Sophists, and the criticism of playwrighters the aristotelian choice is to avoid the platonic metha-ethic and to follow the sophistic problems in order to resolve them. In Aristotle, as naturalist, biodiversity have to decide about the form and the definition of polis, and so a very new anthropological skyline is open for the new cities that will be survive: that is what Dione di Prusa can tell us in the report of travel to Boristene.

Recommended Bibliography

Textbooks for following lectures and taking examination:
Testi da portare per seguire le lezioni e per l’esame:
1. W. SHAKESPEARE, La Tempesta, qualsiasi traduzione
2. ARISTOTELE, Metafica I, 1-2; transl. G. Reale (Bompiani); oppure E. Berti (Laterza o RBA); oppure G. Vailati (Il primo libro della Metafisica, Carabba, Lanciano 2008)
3. ARISTOTELE, Politica, libri I - III; VII; trad. F. Ferri, Bompiani, Milano 2016; oppure L. Canfora - R. Kraut - D. Keyt - R. Radice - T. Gargiulo - T.J. Saunders - R. Robinson, Mondadori - Valla, Milano 2014; oppure Trad. A. Viano, Rizzoli, Milano 2003.
4. DIONE DI PRUSA, Orazione XXXVI (Boristenitico), trad. M. Di Febo, Carabba, Lanciano 2017
5. by choice: a comedy of ARISTOPHANES, Birds, Women at Parlament, Lisistrata, Archanesi; or F. FANON, Pelle nera e maschere bianche, Ets, Pisa 2015

Texts to prepare esamination:
1. by choice: AA. VV., Teoria e Prassi in Aristotele, a cura di L. Grecchi, Petite Plaisance, Pistoia 2018; oppure G. A. LUCCHETTA - M. DE INNOCENTIIS, La salvezza della città. Ethos e logos in democrazia, Carabba, Lanciano 2012.
2. by choice: G. CAMBIANO, Come nave in tempesta. Il governo della città in Platone e Aristotele, Laterza, Roma – Bari 2016; oppure L. CANFORA, La crisi dell’utopia. Aristofane contro Platone, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2014; oppure G. STELLI, Tre lezioni sulla politica di Aristotele, Petite Pleasance, Pistoia 2016.
3. by choice: S. ACHELLA- G. GRIMALDI- G.A. LUCCHETTA (a cura), Lo sguardo di Calibano. Studi di semeiotica postcoloniale, “Itinerari”, Mimesis 2019; oppure K. MARX, Manoscritti economico-filosofici del 1844, a cura di N. Bobbio, Einaudi 1973, pp.69-86 (Primo manoscritto. 4. Il lavoro estraniato)
4. to choice a textbook for the general history:
P. ROSSI- C. A. VIANO, Storia della filosofia. L’Antichità, Roma – Bari, Laterza 1993
G. CAMBIANO, Storia della filosofia antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009

Teaching Methods

Lectures are so divided:
General part: dott. M. Di Febo
Lectures on Aristotele: prof. G. Lucchetta
Lectures on Dyo of Prusa: prof. Lucchetta and dott. Di Febo

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The examination has two steps. In the first it is possible to verify the general knowledge of history of ancient philosophy according the textbook chosen. After that , i twill be verified the knowledge of the argument of the main course. The student have to declare the textbook that he used for studing, if there was a choice, and it will be verified if the candidate finds his bearings in the text of the course with the help of the text of comment.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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