SCV0836 - PHILOSOPHY OF THE PRESENT

On the basis of the fundamental skills and knowledge acquired in the Philosophy of History course (1st year), the Philosophy of the Present course proposes a concrete approach to the practice of philosophy, to its way of problematising and constructing knowledge. The ‘present’ to which the course refers in philosophical terms is in fact not to be understood as mere ‘actuality’, but as the place of reality experienced in the first person: a “present” always ‘in progress’, never totally translatable into the object of a universal knowledge and in the order of linear time. Within this framework, the course intends to shed light on some of the main research trajectories of contemporary philosophy, showing the profound cogency that the questions posed in a purely theoretical perspective also reveal on the ethical, gnoseological and epistemological, social and political levels.
Expected learning outcomes
- refinement of skills in the use of philosophical vocabulary and argumentation;
- ability to interpret and problematise the notions of “lived reality” and “known reality”, “existence” and 'knowledge
- ability to grasp the ethical, social and political implications of philosophical reflection around the criteria of truth and historicity of knowledge;
- critical ability to read the present, aware of the cultural transformations that redefine the meaning of human action and knowledge in different historical periods.