PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS I

Philosophical Hermeneutics belongs to the sector of Theoretical Philosophy and is focussed on the issues related to human interpretation, not intended as a cognitive representation but rather as a thinking experience of human beings as they are in the world. Philosophical Hermeneutics is not a mere discipline and transcends any simply methodological and epistemological problem relating to interpretative activity.
There are at least three crucial points decisive of Philosophical Hermeneutics within the Philosophy course:
(1) Philosophical Hermeneutics vividly rethinks the great questions of the philosophical tradition;
(2) Philosophical Hermeneutics insists on the concrete link of philosophical studies with the real existence of humans;
(3) Philosophical Hermeneutics cultivates the sense of the multiplicity and mobility of meaning of the discourses, especially in important texts.

Students are expected to learn how to deal with the polysemic and stratified character of the great texts of the past, considered classics.
Students are expected to learn to experience the distance of what belongs to philosophical (and literary and religious) discourses without therefore rushing to refer everything back to their own private and personal experience.

The course is not recommended for first-year students and presupposes an acquired knowledge and mastery of the crucial categories and issues of the Western philosophical tradition.

Title: Which are philosophy's actions? A question for philosophical hermeneutics.

M. Heidegger writes in "Letter on humanism" [1946-49]: in the modern age "" philosophy "is in the constant need to justify its existence towards "sciences" ».
Useless, ineffective and contemplative, philosophical meditation is out of the game, like a luxury, a barely tolerated concession or a precious jewel admired from afar.
What necessity and what strength for hermeneutic-philosophical philosophical thought? Heidegger stresses the necessity to philosophize as it is rooted in human existences, preserving strength through the phenomenological way. It is a "philosophizing" which is action rather than representation.

John Locke, "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" (1693), § 174 [disponibile su Moodle];
Immanuel Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason", any edition, only the following part: Transcendental Doctrine of the Method, Chapter Three: The Architecture of Pure Reason;
Immanuel Kant, "In a gentleman's tone recently assumed in philosophy" (1796).
Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond good and evil", aphorisms 1-23 and 204-213;
Martin Heidegger, "Phenomenology of Religious Life", only Methodical Introduction I;
Martin Heidegger, "What is philosophy?";
Gilles Deleuze, "What is philosophy?" [1991].

The exam test will be written. Students will be asked to illustrate four passages taken from the texts included in the Syllabus. The exam will last no more than two hours.

Lectures will give space to the direct reading of texts, projected on screen, and to a wide interlocution with the students.

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