Teacher
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GENTILI DARIO
(syllabus)
States of Nature: Desire and Need from Plato to Modern Philosophy. The course aims to consider the philosophical anthropology underlying conceptions of the state of nature in modernity. Its aim is to focus on desire and need as two different drivers of the transition from the state of nature to civil society.
(reference books)
- Plato, The Symposium [any edition] - T. Hobbes, Leviathan, Part One [any edition] - D. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, Book III. On Morals [any edition] - K. Marx, "Forms preceding capitalist production", in Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Grundrisse) [photocopies provided by the professor]
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