THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

In the philosophical studies Theoretical Philosophy is as fundamental as the study of Physiology in Medicine. It aims to bring out the first elements of the essential issues of human thought, without limiting itself to an analytical decomposition or a historiographical survey. His critical and multi-perspectives syntheses - albeit nourished by the necessary philological and historical-cultural mediations - engage themselves directly and immediately with the weight and consequences of things to think about.

Learning to recognize the multiple meanings, stratifications and references of an important philosophical text.
Learning to focus more on the right questions than on the answers.
Learning to articulate discourses aiming at justifying your own claims to truth.
Learning to select reliable document bases.

Good familiarity with the thought of Heidegger.
This second part of the course necessarily presupposes the first one.

Title: Heidegger and Aquinas

The philosophical confrontation (Auseinandersetzung) with Thomism plays a decisive role in Heidegger. The latter's reinterpretation of Aristotle would be incomprehensible without the effort to remove the Stagirite's moves from the Thomist and neo-Thomist scholastic interpretation. At the center of attention there will be not only the distinction between essence and existence, but also the meaning of the divine as ipsum esse subsistens, as the being that subsists as such. It is first of all starting from this comparison that it is possible to clarify the Heideggerian sense of possibility, of difference, of event/enowning.

Thomas Aquinas, “On Being and Essence”, translated by A. Maurer, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1968;
Thomas Aquinas, “On Truth” (de Veritate);
M. Heidegger, Selected Writings;
John Caputo, “Heidegger and Aquinas. An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics”, Fordham University Press, New York 1982;
Etienne Gilson, "The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy", University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.

A final oral exam consisting in a critical discussion of the texts read, discussed, and commented upon during the course.

Regarding the grading, the exam will be marked on a scale ranging from 0 to 30. The minimum passing grade is 18. Honors ("lode") will be granted only for exceptional capacity of judgment and excellent knowledge of the topics under evaluation.

The course includes 6 hours of lessons per week, in each of which the fifth and sixth hours will be dedicated to questions, discussions and interventions by the attending students.

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