HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
cod. 1004607

Academic year 2020/21
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
- Matteo TRUFFELLI
Academic discipline
Storia delle dottrine politiche (SPS/02)
Field
Discipline classiche, storiche, antropologiche e politico-sociali
Type of training activity
Characterising
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide students with a critical awareness of some fundamental concepts of ancient and modern western political thought.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites are not required

Course unit content

The course will analyse some of the main concepts in the Western political thought: Democracy, Tolerance and Freedom.

Full programme

Liberty and Democracy in the ancient thought. Tolerance in the early and modern cristian Tohught. Hobbes: natural Liberty and political Liberty. Liberty by the Law: Locke. Tolerance and Liberty. Liberty by the Constitution: Montesquieu. Rousseau: Liberty as partecipation. Constant: Liberty of the Ancients compared with that of the Moderns. Liberty and Democracy: the Public Opinion. Gaetano Mosca and the Elite theory.

Bibliography

1) E. Greblo, Democrazia, Il Mulino, Bologna 2000
2) M.L. Lanzillo, Tolleranza, Il Mulino, Bologna 2001
3) M.L. Lanzillo, (a cura), Libertà, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008.
4) G. Bedeschi, Opinione pubblica, in Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Giovanni Treccani, Rome 1998, pp. 359-367, reperibile al link:
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/opinione-pubblica_%28Enciclopedia-delle-scienze-sociali%29/
5) N. Bobbio, Libertà, in Enciclopedia del Novecento, Treccani, reperibile al link:
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/liberta_%28Enciclopedia-del-Novecento%29/
6) N. Bobbio, Eguaglianza, in Enciclopedia del Novecento, Treccani, reperibile al link:
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/eguaglianza_(Enciclopedia-del-Novecento)/
7) N. Matteucci, Costituzionalismo, in Enciclopedia delle Scienze sociali, Treccani
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/costituzionalismo_(Enciclopedia-delle-scienze-sociali)/

The bibliography is the same for non-attending students.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons, during which will be analysed parts of the main classic texts of the political thought.

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination.
The examination consists in 3 questions on 3 different topics. Each question will be focused on the comprehension of the subject-matte. Each question will be assigned a value of 10/30

Other information

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