Teaching Workshop: Philosophy Workshop in the Prison of Bollate 2
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The workshop aims to provide students to address conceptual nodes that have been at the center of the history of Western thought inserted in a multidisciplinary perspective. Students will join a dialogue with other participants from the prison, through a method that recalls the disputed issues typical of medieval scholasticism, as an examination of the arguments for and against the possible solution of the problem.
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
hat is freedom? Is political freedom different from moral freedom? Are there different types of political freedom? Which is best for the societies in which we live? These questions cannot be answered clearly and unambiguously because freedom is one of the "contested concepts" in the history of Western political thought. The workshop aims to explore some of the main concepts of freedom that have been developed in the history of Western political thought, inviting students to reflect critically on a concept that is so relevant to academic debate as well as to the daily lives of all citizens. Particular attention will be paid to the concept proposed by Benjamin Constant after the French Revolution in his Discourse on the Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns, but the concepts developed by Cicero, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Mill, Marx, Arendt and Weil will also be examined. At least two of the ten lessons will be devoted to contemporary debates on freedom, with particular attention to feminist reflections.
Prerequisites for admission
No preliminary knowledge is required
Teaching methods
The workshop requires the active participation of the students: in addition to taking part in debates that will allow them to reflect critically on the meaning of freedom, they will present to each other the basic concepts of the texts to be studied. The teacher will
show the passages to be analysed during the debates,
indicate the parts to be studied through guided or independent research of other critical studies,
provide materials for individual and/or group study for presentations.
In structuring both individual and group work, particular attention will be paid to the identification of reliable, scholarly and open sources and to the preparation of the final presentation.
Through debates, group presentations and oral presentations, students will learn to better organise the information they have received and to communicate effectively the scientific content they have learnt.
Although the use of slides, videos and other multimedia is not possible, guidance will be given on how to research and use online sources and tools for scientific dissemination. The other educational objectives of the workshops will be achieved by encouraging group work, presentation and discussion. The workshop also promotes the development of a more conscious critical reflection on a central theme for the development of citizenship competences such as freedom.
show the passages to be analysed during the debates,
indicate the parts to be studied through guided or independent research of other critical studies,
provide materials for individual and/or group study for presentations.
In structuring both individual and group work, particular attention will be paid to the identification of reliable, scholarly and open sources and to the preparation of the final presentation.
Through debates, group presentations and oral presentations, students will learn to better organise the information they have received and to communicate effectively the scientific content they have learnt.
Although the use of slides, videos and other multimedia is not possible, guidance will be given on how to research and use online sources and tools for scientific dissemination. The other educational objectives of the workshops will be achieved by encouraging group work, presentation and discussion. The workshop also promotes the development of a more conscious critical reflection on a central theme for the development of citizenship competences such as freedom.
Teaching Resources
Recommended bibliography
M.L. Lanzillo (a cura di), Libertà, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008
M. Barberis, Libertà e liberazione. Testi di Madame De Staël, Simonde de Sismondi, Benjamin Constant, Milano, Società aperta, 2022
B. Constant, La libertà degli antichi, paragonata a quella dei moderni, a cura di G. Paoletti, con il "Profilo del liberalismo" di P.P. Portinaro, Torino, Einaudi, 2005
I. Berlin, Libertà, a cura di H. Hardy, ed. it. a cura di M. Ricciardi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2005
*Students are advised not to purchase the listed texts before the start of the workshop, as the recommended bibliography will be discussed and expanded upon during the first meetings.
M.L. Lanzillo (a cura di), Libertà, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2008
M. Barberis, Libertà e liberazione. Testi di Madame De Staël, Simonde de Sismondi, Benjamin Constant, Milano, Società aperta, 2022
B. Constant, La libertà degli antichi, paragonata a quella dei moderni, a cura di G. Paoletti, con il "Profilo del liberalismo" di P.P. Portinaro, Torino, Einaudi, 2005
I. Berlin, Libertà, a cura di H. Hardy, ed. it. a cura di M. Ricciardi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2005
*Students are advised not to purchase the listed texts before the start of the workshop, as the recommended bibliography will be discussed and expanded upon during the first meetings.
Assessment methods and Criteria
There will be no final examination.
Presentations of individual and/or group work will assess
understanding of the texts,
an in-depth knowledge of the main conceptual contributions analysed,
the use of a specific and appropriate vocabulary.
The workshop will be "approved" if these objectives are achieved and all the required meetings are attended
Presentations of individual and/or group work will assess
understanding of the texts,
an in-depth knowledge of the main conceptual contributions analysed,
the use of a specific and appropriate vocabulary.
The workshop will be "approved" if these objectives are achieved and all the required meetings are attended
Laboratorio Professionalizzante
- University credits: 2
Humanities workshops: 20 hours
Professor:
Ceron Annalisa Antonia
Ricerca Bibliografica e redazione di un testo scientifico filosofico
- University credits: 1
Humanities workshops: 16 hours
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