ONTOLOGY - I

The course of Ontology, of theoretical field, deals with the reasons and questions related to the elaboration of the doctrine on being evoked by classical thought, in view of the outcomes on the ontological front aroused by modern and contemporary philosophical reflection. The course privileges the analytical work on texts, the exhibition of the argumentative strategies and the clarification of the speculative terms devised by the thinkers who have measured themselves with the question around being.

General knowledge and understanding of some important classic texts of Western ontology

Knowledge of the fundamental argumentative strategies on theoretical dimension of philosophical experience, with particular attention to the lexicon, categories and definitions of different speculative survey areas.

Ability to deal with a philosophical text, emphasizing the theoretical approach.

Ability to analyze, understand and argue the reasons underlying philosophical issues, including in relation to the consequences of a practical nature.

Basic knowledge of the history of philosophy.

Being and not-being. Genesis of the ontological discourse.

1. Elements of ontology
2. Parmenides. On being
3. Heraclitus. On becoming
4. Gorgias. On Nothingness

Parte istituzionale

S. Vanni Rovighi, Elementi di filosofia, vol. II Metafisica, Parte I Ontologia, Cavalleri, Como, 1942, cap. I, pp. 7-32 [oppure S. Vanni Rovighi, Istituzioni di filosofia, La Scuola, Brescia, 2015, cap. IV, pp. 71-99[; in alternativa: E. Berti, Introduzione alla metafisica, Utet, Torino, 2017, cap. II, pp. 39-74.

Parte monografica

A) Parmenide, Sulla natura, a cura di Giovanni Reale e Luigi Ruggiu, Bompiani, Milano, 2001.
Studi:
1) E. Severino, Ritornare a Parmenide, in Id., Essenza del nichilismo, Adelphi, Milano, 1982, pp. 19-61; G. Bontadini, Sòzein tà phainòmena. A Emanuele Severino, in Id., Conversazioni di metafisica, II, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 1995, pp. 136-166.
In alternativa:
2) G. Sasso, Essere e negazione, Morano, Napoli, 1987 [cap. I]; M. Visentin, Il neoparmenidismo italiano, II, Bibliopolis, Napoli, 2010, pp. 429-481

B) Eraclito, I frammenti e le testimonianze, a cura di Carlo Diano e Giuseppe Serra, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Mondadori, Milano, 1989. [in alternativa: Eraclito, Frammenti, a cura di Francesco Fronterotta, Bur, Milano, 2013].
Studi:
M. Heidegger, Eraclito, Mursia, Milano, 1993, pp. 123-156.
A. Ardovino, Interpretazioni fenomenologiche di Eraclito, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2012., cap. III, pp. 99-120.

C) Gorgia, Su ciò che non è o sulla natura, in Id., Testimonianze e frammenti, introduzione, traduzione e commento di Roberta Ioli, Carocci, Roma, 2013, pp. 96-113 [frr. 3a e 3b, commento pp. 157-194].
Studi:
M. Migliori, La filosofia di Gorgia. Contributi per una riscoperta del sofista di Lentini, Celuc, Milano, 1973, pp. 23-91.
M. Untersteiner, I sofisti, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2008, pp. 220-240; in alternativa: M, Bonazzi, I sofisti, Carocci, Roma, 2019, pp.39-52.

The examination will include, in addition to the institutional part, a section to be chosen among the three proposed groups (A, B, C).

For the examination, the student will have to demonstrate to:

1) knowing how to introduce and contextualize the themes of the course from the theoretical and historical-philosophical point of view;
2) learn the terminology, the basic concepts and the theoretical points covered during the course;
3) being able to reconstruct the development of the texts, highlighting points / steps nodal and argument ways.

Introduction, reading and analysis of texts.

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