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2) D. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), 2nd ed., edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge and P.H. Niddich, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1978 (book I, part IV, sect. 6)
3) W. James, Principles of Psychology (1890), Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 1981 (vol. I, chapters IX e X).
4) M. Di Francesco, M. Marraffa, A. Paternoster, The Self and its Defenses. From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science, Palgrave-Macmillan, London 2016.
5) P. Fonagy, G. Gergely, E. Jurist and M. Target, Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self, Other Press, London 2002.
6) R.D. Laing, The Divided Self, Tavistock, London 1960.
7) A. Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age, Polity Press, London 1991.
Mutuazione: 20702697 FILOSOFIA TEORETICA - L.M. in Scienze filosofiche LM-78 N0 MARRAFFA MASSIMO
Programme
This course aims to probe the ethical import of a personological view of self-narrativism that is well-entrenched in a naturalistic context. Against the backdrop of William James’ theory of the duplex self, the claim that we constitute ourselves as morally responsible agents (as ‘Lockean persons’) by forming and using autobiographical narratives is combined with Dan McAdams’ view of narrative identity as a layer of personality. During personality development, internalised and evolving stories of the self layer over other layers of personality, and this process of layering may be integrative. The process of self-representation originated from the I/Me dialectic, then, takes the form of what Jung identified as “individuation”, namely, a striving towards the unity of the various strata of personality. Such a process has an ethical dimension that is reminiscent of the ideal of eudaimonia, the discovery and actualization of one’s own unique potentials and talents.Core Documentation
1) J. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Clarendon Press, Oxford 1975 (book II, ch. 27).2) D. Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), 2nd ed., edited by L.A. Selby-Bigge and P.H. Niddich, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1978 (book I, part IV, sect. 6)
3) W. James, Principles of Psychology (1890), Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 1981 (vol. I, chapters IX e X).
4) M. Di Francesco, M. Marraffa, A. Paternoster, The Self and its Defenses. From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science, Palgrave-Macmillan, London 2016.
5) P. Fonagy, G. Gergely, E. Jurist and M. Target, Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self, Other Press, London 2002.
6) R.D. Laing, The Divided Self, Tavistock, London 1960.
7) A. Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age, Polity Press, London 1991.
Type of delivery of the course
The couse includes lectures; discussions with students; at least one seminar about the topics addressed during the course.Type of evaluation
Verification of learning takes place through (1) an oral exam; (2) the preparation of a 3,000-word final paper (in Italian or English) to be discussed in the exam. Students are required to get their paper topics approved by the instructor. Your final grade in the course will be determined as follows: 50% oral exam; 50% final paper.