FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED ETHICS

Aldo TRUCCHIO FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED ETHICS

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DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN, PHILOSOPHIC AND EDUCATION SCIENCES
EQF7
PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA' PER I CONTESTI FORMATIVI, PER IL BENESSERE E PER LO SPORT
2024/2025

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2023
SPRING SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
110LAB
Objectives
THE OVERALL AIM IS TO PROVIDE CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEMINIST AND ECOLOGIST STRUGGLES, STARTING WITH A REFLECTION ON THE MODERN SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND ITS ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS. THE COMMUNITY THEME WILL ALWAYS BE AT THE CENTRE OF THE DISCUSSION.

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
- UNDERSTANDING OF TOPICS SUCH AS: NATURE AND CULTURE; HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; ECOFEMINISM; MECHANISM AND TECHNOSCIENCE; EGALITARIAN AND CAPITALIST UTOPIAS; POLITICS AND COMMUNITY.

AUTONOMY OF JUDGEMENT:
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY ASSESS:
- THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF ISSUES RELATED TO MODERN ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; THEIR ROLE IN CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL AND POLITICAL DEBATES.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO PRESENT THE THEMES OF THE COURSE IN THEIR HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND CRITICALLY AND AUTONOMOUSLY DISCUSS NUMEROUS PRESSING CURRENT ISSUES RELATED TO THE TOPIC OF ECOLOGY AND INTERSECTIONAL STRUGGLES.
Prerequisites
BASIC ELEMENTS OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY.
Contents

- WOMEN AND ECOLOGY.
- MODERN SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC TRANSITION.
- ORGANIC COMMUNITIES AND ECOLOGICAL UTOPIAS.
- THE FEMININE: SEXUALITY, WITCHCRAFT AND REPRODUCTION.
- THE TRANSITION FROM THE ORGANICISTIC TO THE MECHANISTIC WORLD.
Teaching Methods
THE COURSE CONSISTS OF TWO HOURS OF THEORETICAL LECTURES AND EIGHT HOURS OF CLASSROOM EXERCISES. DURING THE WORKSHOPS THE STUDENTS WILL PRESENT A TOPIC FROM THE TEXTBOOK TO THEIR COLLEAGUES AND DISCUSS IT WITH THE LECTURER.
Verification of learning
ORAL TEST WITH A PRESENTATION IN PPT OR PDF OF A TOPIC OF THE STUDENT'S CHOICE AGREED WITH THE PROFESSOR.
Texts
CAROLYN MERCHANT, THE DEATH OF NATURE: WOMEN, ECOLOGY AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, HARPERCOLLINS, 1980, 1990, 2020.

THE MATERIAL FOR THE EXERCISES, ALTHOUGH PRESENT IN THE RECOMMENDED TEXTS, WILL BE SUPPLEMENTED DURING THE COURSE BY THE PROFESSOR.
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