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Learning outcomes |
• to learn the methodology of philosophical reading based on the hermeneutics of texts and concepts;
• to reflect on the relevance of the notion of philosophical conversion for the methodology itself and for the hermeneutics of philosophy;
• to understand the notion of philosophy as a way of life in selected classical authors from Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Modernity, as well as the relations established among these authors through this “practical” conception of philosophy;
• to understand the notion of conversion as an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary concept and, in particular, the notion of philosophical conversion as a decisive concept in the history of philosophy and as a point of articulation between the theoretical and practical dimensions of philosophy;
• to identify the main elements of philosophical conversion in various authors and contexts;
• to identify the constants and the variations within different forms of conversion.
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Syllabus |
History and hermeneutics of philosophy through the example of conversion to philosophy (Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault).
Methodology of philosophical analysis and writing.
Figures of philosophical conversion. Constants and variants among different forms of conversion (philosophical, religious, political…).
Conversion in Antiquity:
3.1) Plato;
3.2) Aristotle;
3.3) The Hellenistic schools: Stoics, Epicureans, and Cynics.
Conversion in the Middle Ages:
4.1) St Augustine;
4.2) Dante Alighieri;
4.3) Francesco Petrarca.
Conversion in Modernity:
5.1) Renaissance conversion;
5.2) Descartes, Spinoza, Nietzsche.
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