Ateneo - UPO

Religion, God, Freedom

M.C. Bartolomei, Filosofia della religione. Lineamenti introduttivi, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2015

L. Pareyson, Ontologia della libertà, Einaudi, Torino 1995

I. Mancini, Frammento su Dio, ed. by A. Aguti, Morcelliana, Brescia 2000

I. Mancini, Opere scelte I. Filosofia della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2007

Materials on Dir

The course aims first of all at introducing students (referring to a basic level and to an advanced level) to the knowledge and understanding of some of the most important themes and authors of the Philosophy of Religion in the modern and contemporary age, showing then in a deeper way Italo Mancini’ s reflection about God and Luigi Pareyson’s thought about originary freedom. The course aims also at offering students tools to understand in an autonomous way a text of the Philosophy of Religion and to express a reasoned judgment about it.

A basic knowledge of the history of philosophy is required.

Lectures and seminars.

Not attending students must also study the following text:
M. Ravera, Introduzione alla filosofia della religione, Utet, Torino 1995.

During the oral examination the knowledge of the principal aspects of a wide content and its historical context will be tested (40%); then the analytic and synthetic understanding of a more specific content with peculiar attention to the correctness of the exposition will be tested (30%); at the end the commentary of a text explained during the lectures and a critical and autonomous judgment about it will be required (30%).
The questions (at least three) will concern the
three aspects mentioned before and the final mark will be given with reference to the indicated percentages.
To achieve a sufficient mark, the student must show to know and understand the basic aspects of themes and authors of the programme.

First of all during the module, after an introduction to the essence of the Philosophy of Religion, the essential lines and the most important authors of it - starting from Spinoza’s perspective up to the contemporary Hermeneutics - will be analized also by means of reading and expounding texts. The nexus between Philosophy and Religion in Italo Mancini’s thought and Luigi Pareyson’Ontology of Freedom will be then showed in deeper way.

It is expected that students can orientate themselves in an adequate way in knowing and understanding (also applied) of the proposed contents and that they learn how to use some essential critical tools to express in an autonomous and operative way a personal judgment about these contents.