| Dozent/in |
Prof. Dr. phil. Giovanni Ventimiglia |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Hauptvorlesung |
| Code |
HS201536 |
| Semester |
Herbstsemester 2020 |
| Durchführender Fachbereich |
Theologie |
| Studienstufe |
Bachelor
Master
Doktorat |
| Weitere Daten |
- Aufschaltung der Unterlagen auf OLAT: jeweils bis Freitag
- Aufschaltung der Podcasts auf OLAT: bis spätestens eine Woche nach der Veranstaltung |
| Umfang |
2 Semesterwochenstunden |
| Turnus |
Kein Turnus |
| Inhalt |
“Does God exist?”, “Does Queen Elisabeth II (still) exist?”, “Does the Mafia exist?” “Does (true) love exist?”, “Does freedom exist?”, “Does wisdom exist?”, “Does paleness exist?”, “Does Lord Voldemort exist?”, “Does evil exist?”, “Do black swans exist”? “Do extraterrestrial intelligences exist?”:
All these questions have the verb "to exist” in common. Yet, is the sense of this verb the same in all of the sentences? This very question has been at the heart of philosophical debate since the times of Aristotle's Metaphysics (Book V), and has made a very strong return in contemporary analytical philosophy, especially after the works of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Willard Van Orman Quine.
Let us also consider the following sentences: “Is there a God?”, “Are there square roots of Four?”, “Is Sepp gentle?, “Is it the case that sexual abuses happen particularly within the Catholic Church?”
These different sentences have the verb "to be” in common, yet the question is, once again: Does this verb have the same sense in all of them? Furthermore, are some or even all of these questions similar to some questions asked in the "to exist” group?
The course addresses these exquisitely logico-philosophical questions and analyses the different answers given by three great philosophers: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Gottlob Frege.
The course is also thought as an introduction to their metaphysics. |
| Lernziele |
Einführung in die Metaphysik von Aristoteles, Thomas von Aquin, Gottlob Frege |
| Voraussetzungen |
Einführung in die Philosophie |
| Sprache |
Englisch |
| Prüfung |
Unbenoteter Leistungsnachweis: schriftliche Prüfung (2 Cr)
Benotete schriftliche Prüfung (3 Cr) |
| Abschlussform / Credits |
Benotete schriftliche Prüfung mit Zusatzleistung / 4 Credits
Unbenoteter Leistungsnachweis / 2 Credits
Benotete schriftliche Prüfung / 3 Credits
siehe "Prüfung" / 0 Credits
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| Hinweise |
- Modus der Durchführung: Podcasts (wöchentlich)
- Lehrveranstaltungsbeginn: Do., 17.09.
- Der Kurseinstieg in der 1. Woche ist unverzichtbar.
- Hinweise zum Einstieg in die Lehrveranstaltung: Informationen auf OLAT
- The lectures will be given in English, but the discussions can take place in any of the national languages: German, French or Italian.
- Pflichtinhalte gem. SPO 2013: Philosophie: Philosophiegeschichte; Erkenntnistheorie und Logik; Metaphysik |
| Hörer-/innen |
Nein |
| Kontakt |
giovanni.ventimiglia@unilu.ch; david.anzalone@unilu.ch |
| Literatur |
Aristotle, Metaphysics. Translated by William D. Ross. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1908.
Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Metaphysics, Trans. John P. Rowan, Henry Regnery Co, Chicago 1961.
Gottlob Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic: A logico-mathematical enquiry into the concept of number., trans. J. L. Austin, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois 1980.
Giovanni Ventimiglia, Aquinas after Frege, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke-New York: 2020.
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