Università Roma Tre

Throughout the course, students will deal with an ancient philosophical work. Their knowledge will cover issues of ancient ethics and philosophy of action, also dealing with the scholarly debates. At the end of the course, students will acquire an in-depth knowledge of an ancient philosophical work and of the theoretical and historical background.
Student are expected to acquire:
- critical reading and analysis of ancient philosophical sources and of the relevant scholarly literature;
- In-depth critical thinking and historical methodology;
- Critical analysis and argumentation in oral form.

Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, a cura di C. Natali, Laterza, Bari 1999, libro III, pp. 77-124
Natali, Carlo (2017), Il Metodo e il Trattato. Saggio sull’Etica Nicomachea, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura.

Bobzien, Susanne, (2014) «Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics 1113b7-8 and free choice», in Destrée P., Salles R., Zingano M. (eds.) ,What is up to us? Studies on Causality and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy, Akademia Verlag, Sankt Augustin, 91-106.

Bobzien, Susanne (2014), «Choice and Moral Responsibility (NE III 1-5)». Polansky, Ronald, The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Cambridge University Press, New York, 81-109.
Bondeson, William (1974), «Aristotle on Responsibility for One's Character and the Possibility of Character Change», Phronesis, vol. 19 n. 1, 59-65.
Donini, Pierluigi (1989), «Volontarietà di Vizio e Virtù (Aristot. Eh. Nic. III 1-7)». Berti, Enrico; Napolitano Valditara; Linda M. (a cura di), Etica, politica, retorica : studi su Aristotele e la sua presenza nell'età moderna, L’Aquila, Japarde, 3-21.
Nielsen, Karen (2007), «Dirtying Aristotle’s Hands? Aristotle’s Analysis of ‘Mixed Acts’ in the Nicomachean Ethics III, 1», Phronesis, 52, 270-300.