MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Course Sheet

Course code:

PSI0302

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Divisions:

Cognomi N-Z

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Is part of:

MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ACHELLA STEFANIA

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

History of contemporary philosophy and of psychology between 800 and 900.

Objectives

The question of corporeality is a particularly central issue in contemporary thinking.
The aim of the course is to analyse how the body has acquired centrality during the 20th century and in particular how the phenomenological tradition, within philosophy, has opposed biological reductionism. The analysis of the relationship between biological conceptions and ethical perspectives alongside epistemological questions will serve to offer a broader perspective for reading the history of psychology and for understanding how its practical and epistemological tools have evolved, highlighting possible historical and epistemological prejudices, as well as the need for a critical attitude also with respect to positivistic reductionism in the medical sciences' understanding of life.

Contents

What is the relationship between mind and body? What is the role of corporeality in the constitution of acts of consciousness or thought? How is the perception of the world, myself and others articulated through the body?
From these fundamental questions the phenomenological movement, particularly in the figures of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, has placed the body and corporeality at the centre of philosophical reflection. This course is dedicated to these two authors. In the final part of the course, we will focus on the analyses that have developed in the field of philosophy of the body since Merleau-Ponty, in particular the reflections of Judith Butler.

Extended Syllabus

In his phenomenological research, Edmund Husserl dwells on the way subjectivity is considered by the dominant psychological approach and feels the need to recover the subjective and subsequently intersubjective dimension in the structuring of experience. In the course of the twentieth century, Maurice Merleau-Ponty developed Husserl's reflections dedicating himself specifically to the theme of the body, writing his Phenomenology of Perception. The course aims to reconstruct the links and differences between Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's proposals in order to restore the importance of corporeality in the understanding of the subject.

Recommended Bibliography

Bibliografia:
E. Husserl: Idee. Libro secondo: Ricerche fenomenologiche sopra la costituzione. In: Idee per
una fenomenologia pura e per una filosofia fenomenologica. Trad. it. a cura di Vincenzo
Costa. Torino: Einaudi 2002, p. 146-163.
M. Merleau-Ponty: Fenomenologia della percezione. Trad. it. a cura di Andrea Bonomi.
Milano: Bompiani 2005, p. 15-46; 111-119; 151-219; 275-393.
J. Butler, La vita psichica del potere, Milano: Mimesis 1997.

Teaching Methods

Lessons, reading and commentary of texts, seminars by experts, verification tests

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The examination will consist of an oral interview with the teacher. It aims to assess the knowledge and understanding of the topics covered during the course. in the event of a large number of examination participants, the possibility of a written examination is envisaged.
The grade is expressed in thirtieth

Contacts/More Information

During the course, will be indicated the parts object of examination.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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