ONTOLOGY - II

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
ONTOLOGIA II
Course code
FT0145 (AF:444976 AR:288528)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6 out of 12 of ONTOLOGY
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
M-FIL/01
Period
2nd Term
Course year
2
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.
The ontological question and its relevance: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty

The aim of the course is to interrogate the question of "being" between classical and contemporary ontology. In the first part of the course, the main categories of classical ontology (being, nothingness, becoming, lògos, archè, physis, etc.) will be examined, in order to clarify, in the second part, some specific ways in which they are being transcended in the contemporary age, in the direction of a more original philosophical understanding, placed beyond the metaphysical-nihilistic project.

Institutional section

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

Monographic section

Group A)

• F. Nietzsche, La volontà di potenza, a cura di G. Brianese, Mimesis, Milano, 2006 [parti da precisare]
• F. Nietzsche, Il crepuscolo degli idoli, ovvero come si filosofa col martello, nota introduttiva di M. Montinari, traduzione di F. Masini, Adelphi, Milano, 2005. [parti da precisare]
• M. Heidegger, Introduzione alla metafisica, a cura di G. Vattimo, Mursia, Milano, 1968 [parti da precisare] (in alternativa: Id., I concetti fondamentali della filosofia antica, Adelphi, Milano, 1993, [parti da precisare])
• M. Heidegger, Segnavia, Adelphi, Milano, 1987, pp. 159-192 e pp. 335-374

Studies (two to choose from the following studies):

• E. Severino, L’anello del ritorno, Adelphi, Milano, 1999 [parti da precisare]
• G. Deleuze, Nietzsche e la filosofia e altri testi, a cura di F. Polidori, Einaudi, Torino, 2002 [parti da precisare].
• G. Vattimo, Essere, storia e linguaggio in Heidegger, Marietti, Genova, 1963. [parti da precisare]
• J. Wahl, Verso la fine dell’ontologia. Studio sull’’Introduzione alla Metafisica di Heidegger, a cura di Giuseppe Masi, Fabbri, Milano, 1971 [parti da precisare]


Group B)

• H. Bergson, Introduzione alla metafisica, Orthotes, Napoli-Salerno, 2012 [parti da precisare]
• H. Bergson, Il possibile e il reale, in Id., Pensiero e movimento, a cura di Pier Aldo Rovatti, trad. it. F. Sforza, Bompiani, Milano, 2000, pp. 83-97.
• M. Merleau-Ponty, È possibile oggi la filosofia? Lezioni al Collège de France 1958-1959 e 1960-1961, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2003. [parti da precisare]
• M. Merleau-Ponty, Il visibile e l’invisibile, a cura di Mauro Carbone, Bompiani, Milano 1993 [parti da precisare]

Studies (two to choose from the following studies):

• R. Breeur, La vita e il nulla, in G. Strummiello (a cura di), Dio, la vita, il nulla. L’evoluzione creatrice di Henri bergson a cento anni dalla pubblicazione, Edizioni di Pagina, Bari, 2008, pp. 97-122.
• G. Deleuze, Il bergsonismo e altri saggi, a cura di Pier Aldo Rovatti e Deborah Borca, Einaudi, Torino, 2001, pp. 81-103 (in alternativa G. Sasso, Tempo, evento divenire, il Mulino, Bologna, 1996 cap. VI).
• Alessandra Scotti, Il mondo del silenzio. Natura e vita in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ETS, Pisa, 2015, pp. 19-64.
• L. Vanzago, Leggere il visibile e l’invisibile di Merleau-Ponty, Ibis, Como-Pavia, 2020 [parti da precisare].
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.
Italian
oral

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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 25/06/2024