At the end of the course, the student will have:
No prerequisite is required in addition to those necessary to overcome the TVI.
Teaching will take place through lectures and reading and commenting texts with the students.
The assessment will take place through an interview with an oral exam. The final mark will be out of thirty points.
Ethics is not so much the philosophical reflection on that part of individual and social life that might be called moral life, as it is the philosophical reflection on the ideals and norms that guide and inform the entire social life — and that are therefore also relevant to that sphere, the economy, which in the modern age has become disembedded from the whole to which it belongs.
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, some of the most profound concepts for thinking about this complex of ideals and norms — and the ways in which human beings are implicated in them — were developed. The course aims to read and discuss with students selected parts of this work (Book II, on the virtues of character, and Book VI, on the forms of practical rationality), also in light of important medieval (in particular, though not exclusively, Thomas Aquinas) and contemporary interpretations (for example, Polanyi, Gadamer, MacIntyre, and Nussbaum).
The course is divided into two modules, taught by two professors (R. Fanciullacci and R. Saccenti), but the modules form part of a single course that will be delivered jointly by both professors.
The program for non-attending students is identical to the one for attending students, as well as the assessment methods.
Further materials (texts and bibliographical indications) will be provided during the course and made available in digital format on the course website.
Erasmus students and students with PDP or PEI are invited to contact the teacher at the beginning of the courses.
