The Reading Laboratory is part of the program in Philosophical sciences (MA level) and is included among the “Other Training Activities (Letter F)”. Upon completion of the Reading Laboratory students will have read through some of Hegel's writings on the sentient soul. In particular, students must have developed and deepened: - advanced language and argumentation skills required for reading and understanding the original editions of Hegel’s Vorlesungen über die Philosophie des Geistes: Berlin 1827-1828; - ability to analyse a philosophical problem from different points of view; - ability to draw conclusions from a variety of observations and inferences. These skills are promoted during the seminar work that is an integral part of the Laboratory through writing texts and collegial debate.
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Programme
During the workshop, students will read, expound in class and comment together on Books II and III of Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature."Core Documentation
David Hume, Treatise of human nature, Books II (Of Passions) and III (Of Morals). Suggested edition: Oxford University Press (edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton)Reference Bibliography
Selected bibliography Nadia Boccara, Il buon uso delle passioni. Hume filosofo morale, una biblioteca possibile (Liguori) Lorenzo Greco, L'io morale: David Hume e l'etica contemporanea (Liguori) Pierpaolo Marrone, L'io delle passioni. Indagine su Hume (Edizioni Goliardiche) J.L. Mackie, Hume's Moral Theory (Routldedge) Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Hume, Passion, and Action (Oxford University Press) Jacqueline Anne Taylor, Reflecting Subjects Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume's Philosophy (Oxford University Press)Type of delivery of the course
The Laboratory includes: • Frontal teaching; • Group work and oral presentations by students. In the case of an extension of the health emergency by COVID-19 all the provisions governing the conduct of teaching activities and student evaluation will be implemented. In particular, the following methods will be applied: distance teaching through the University platforms and distance exposure of students' work through the Microsoft Teams platform.Attendance
Up to and no more than one-third absences will be tolerated.Type of evaluation
In order to obtain the eligibility corresponding to 6 university credits (CFU), students must ensure attendance and draw up a short text on one of the proposed topics, which will be exposed and discussed in the classroom.