FS2019 Reading and Commentary of Philosophical Texts

Prof Guido Traversa

Autors Studied: Descartes; Hobbes; Pascal; Spinoza; Leibniz; Vico; Locke, Berkeley; Hume; Rousseau (Enlightenment), Kant.
The method of the seminar will be as follows: a) The teacher will give an anthology of texts which contains the most emblematic pages of the philosophers in question. b) Each student has to read the entire anthology; c) Each student will be given an author and will have to present in the first period a critical commentary of the text. d) In the second period there will be a group discussion. e) Each student should read up on the author he is presenting by using a good textbook or readings provided by the teacher.