Teaching Workshop: Philosophy Workshop 1
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
Il laboratorio ha l'obiettivo di approfondire il tema della complessità "metamorfica" della biografia, delle circostanze in cui siamo inseriti con attenzione anche ai correlativi "paesaggi" della coscienza e ai segnali emergenti. I temi del destino e della consapevolezza individuali vengono affrontati nella successione dei livelli naturalistico, filosofico e psicologico. Per cui gli studenti vengono guidati (all'interno di una prassi di riflessione dialogica della propria biografia e della consapevolezza personale, e mediante letture commentate, pratiche dialogiche ed esperienze visive e immaginative) ad affrontare l'attualizzazione di alcuni testi filosofico-naturali di J.W. Goethe e delle successive elaborazioni epistemologiche e psicologiche di R. Steiner.
Expected learning outcomes
The workshop aims to develop the following skills:
Critical thinking skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will display a sufficiently independent critical approach in selecting and interpreting the notions that are most relevant their area of study and to the broader socio-cultural context in which they operate
Communication skills:
By the end of the workshop:
- students will be able to effectively communicate the acquired knowledge and disseminate it to the general public;
- student will have developed basic IT skills concerning knowledge preservation and transfer.
Learning skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will have developed the learning skills required to continue their studies in keeping with their own research interests. In order to meet this objective, students will also develop relevant skills in the independent interpretation of sources and in the use of basic IT tool for bibliographic research.
Critical thinking skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will display a sufficiently independent critical approach in selecting and interpreting the notions that are most relevant their area of study and to the broader socio-cultural context in which they operate
Communication skills:
By the end of the workshop:
- students will be able to effectively communicate the acquired knowledge and disseminate it to the general public;
- student will have developed basic IT skills concerning knowledge preservation and transfer.
Learning skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will have developed the learning skills required to continue their studies in keeping with their own research interests. In order to meet this objective, students will also develop relevant skills in the independent interpretation of sources and in the use of basic IT tool for bibliographic research.
Lesson period: Second semester
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
"Metamorphosis" of individual destiny. A tool for the development and training of human resources
The course includes the exposure and experience of the following contents:
1) introduction to the fundamental concepts of the conception of nature and the world (Weltanschauung) by J.W. Goethe; framing of the concept of "metamorphosis" in Goethe's natural philosophy with examples in the naturalistic field;
2) influence of Goethe's scientific-natural thought on R. Steiner's philosophy
3) translation of the idea of "metamorphosis" from the naturalistic to the biographical sphere;
4) excursus in the "Philosophy of Freedom", R. Steiner's main philosophical work, focusing on the transition from the theory of knowledge to the so-called "ethical individualism";
5) the phenomena of metamorphosis in the sensible world and in consciousness: the need to expand from analytical-discursive thinking to intuitive-imaginative thinking; practical exercises with illustrative material and guided dialogue comparison.
6) final considerations: phenomena of biographical recurrence and their different ways of manifestation in different temporal and environmental contexts (metamorphosis); importance of intuitive thinking to grasp the truly free impulses that emerge from consciousness as ideal motives for action; operate harmoniously on one's own destiny and in social situations: introduction to the concepts of "moral fantasy" and "moral technique" with practical examples.
Meeting calendar:
Fri 28/02 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
Fri 14/03 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
Fri 04/04 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
Fri 11/04 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
Fri 09/05 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
To attend this workshop, pre-register as indicated in the Workshops section of the Philosophy website:
https://filosofia.cdl.unimi.it/it/insegnamenti/laboratori
The course includes the exposure and experience of the following contents:
1) introduction to the fundamental concepts of the conception of nature and the world (Weltanschauung) by J.W. Goethe; framing of the concept of "metamorphosis" in Goethe's natural philosophy with examples in the naturalistic field;
2) influence of Goethe's scientific-natural thought on R. Steiner's philosophy
3) translation of the idea of "metamorphosis" from the naturalistic to the biographical sphere;
4) excursus in the "Philosophy of Freedom", R. Steiner's main philosophical work, focusing on the transition from the theory of knowledge to the so-called "ethical individualism";
5) the phenomena of metamorphosis in the sensible world and in consciousness: the need to expand from analytical-discursive thinking to intuitive-imaginative thinking; practical exercises with illustrative material and guided dialogue comparison.
6) final considerations: phenomena of biographical recurrence and their different ways of manifestation in different temporal and environmental contexts (metamorphosis); importance of intuitive thinking to grasp the truly free impulses that emerge from consciousness as ideal motives for action; operate harmoniously on one's own destiny and in social situations: introduction to the concepts of "moral fantasy" and "moral technique" with practical examples.
Meeting calendar:
Fri 28/02 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
Fri 14/03 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
Fri 04/04 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
Fri 11/04 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
Fri 09/05 - 2.30pm-6.30pm
To attend this workshop, pre-register as indicated in the Workshops section of the Philosophy website:
https://filosofia.cdl.unimi.it/it/insegnamenti/laboratori
Prerequisites for admission
Nobody
Teaching methods
- presentation of key contents
- discussion
- teamwork
- discussion
- teamwork
Teaching Resources
J.W. Goethe, La metamorfosi delle piante, Guanda 1999
J.W. Goethe, La metamorfosi degli animali, SE 2021
R. Steiner, La filosofia della libertà, Editrice Antroposofica 2013
P. Florenskij, Lo spazio e il tempo nell'arte, Adelphi 1995
J.W. Goethe, La metamorfosi degli animali, SE 2021
R. Steiner, La filosofia della libertà, Editrice Antroposofica 2013
P. Florenskij, Lo spazio e il tempo nell'arte, Adelphi 1995
Assessment methods and Criteria
Individual or group written test and participation in lessons
Evaluation criteria:
- autonomy of judgement;
- ability to cooperate in a working group;
- communication and expression skills, also with computer technologies;
- ability to summarize and write correctly;
- autonomy in the use and verification of sources, basic bibliographic and IT tools for scientific research and updating
Evaluation criteria:
- autonomy of judgement;
- ability to cooperate in a working group;
- communication and expression skills, also with computer technologies;
- ability to summarize and write correctly;
- autonomy in the use and verification of sources, basic bibliographic and IT tools for scientific research and updating
Laboratorio Professionalizzante
- University credits: 2
Humanities workshops: 20 hours
Professor:
Ferrario Emilio Giuseppe
Ricerca Bibliografica e redazione di un testo scientifico filosofico
- University credits: 1
Humanities workshops: 16 hours
Professor(s)