Università Roma Tre

In the context of today's political philosophy, the basic learning goals of the course concern both the awareness of, and critical ability to relate to, the major aspects of contemporary philosophical debate and, more specifically, the ability to analyze the conceptual and historical roots of the current debates. The course favors the thematic and conceptual dimension of philosophical-political inquiry, while it profits from historiographical findings. The course is structured in such a way as to allow the achievement of the following specific learning goals:
- critical apprehension of the presuppositions, research methods, purposes and heuristic significance of political philosophy
- critical awareness in respect of the ties that connect political philosophy to disciplines that are primarily concerned with the political such as political science, political sociology and the history of political ideas as well as of the features that distinguish the former from the latter
- critical apprehension of the main issues and aspects of the development of the fundamental problems, ideas and concepts of Western philosophical-political thought
- critical and aware use of the lexicon of political philosophy