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20710018 HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY in Philosophy L-5 CHIARADONNA RICCARDO
(syllabus)
A: Virtue, Agency and Happiness in Plato. Part A will include weeks 1-6. The following issues will be covered: Socrates' intellectualism and Plato's criticism of it in the Republic, virtue and excellence, the soul's tripartition, justice and happiness. B: Virtue, Agency and Happiness in Aristotle. Part B include weeks 7-12. The following issues will be covered: virtue and agency in Aristotle, virtue and contemplative life, happiness,
The syllabus of part A and the syllabus of part B must be studied in order to obtain 12 ECTS.
(reference books)
A
[1] B. Centrone, Prima lezione di filosofia antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015. R.Chiaradonna e P. Pecere, Vivere la Conoscenza, Mondadori Education, Milano, 2022, Volume 1A: Dalle origini ad Aristotele. R. Chiaradonna, Platonismo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.
[2] Platone, Repubblica, libro 1 e libro 4, trad. di M. Vegetti, Rizzoli, Milano 2007.. M. Vegetti, Quindici Lezioni su Platone, Einaudi, Torino, 2003. M. Vegetti, L'etica degli antichi, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2023 (VII ristampa).
[3] Students are required to prepare a paper (2500 words) on one of the following topics (for the bibliography, see [1]):
[i] The origins of Greek philosophy: myth and logos, the Milesian school, Heraclitus [ii] Parmenides, his followers and his critics: Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus, Gorgias, Plato [iii] The so-called 'pluralistic' cosmologies in the fifth century BC: Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus [iv] Being and causes in Plato and Aristotle
B
[1] B. Centrone, Prima lezione di filosofia antica, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015. R.Chiaradonna e P. Pecere, Vivere la Conoscenza, Mondadori Education, Milano, 2022, Volume 1A: Dalle origini ad Aristotele. R. Chiaradonna, Platonismo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017.
[2] Aristotele, Etica Nicomachea, libro 1 e libro 10, a cura di C. Natali, testo greco a fronte, Laterza-Bari 1999. M. Vegetti e F. Ademollo, Incontro con Aristotele, Einaudi, Torino 2016. M. Vegetti, L'etica degli antichi, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2023 (VII ristampa).
[3] Students are required to prepare a paper (2500 words) on one of the following topics (for the bibliography, see [1]):
[i] The origins of Greek philosophy: myth and logos, the Milesian school, Heraclitus [ii] Parmenides, his followers and his critics: Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus, Gorgias, Plato [iii] The so-called 'pluralistic' cosmologies in the fifth century BC: Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus [iv] Being and causes in Plato and Aristotle
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