MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Professional education
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2020/2021
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2021/2022
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Seat of the course: 
Varese - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Credits: 
2
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
20
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (20 hours)
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

First Part :
- On the terms of ethics (good, evil, happiness, virtue, vice, life, death)

- On the concept of Person (the difference between something and someone, the concept of acknowledgment)

- On the relationship between technique and ethics

Second Part
- Origin principles and methods of bioethics

- Bioethics, moral theories and education

- Professional ethics and aims of medicine

- Main bioethical issues: beginning of life, end of life, restraint, advance directives of treatment

Aristotle, Etica Nicomachea, chapters I and II.
R. Spaemann, Persone, pp. 18-40.
H. Jonas, Tecnica, medicina ed etica, chapters I-II-III.
National Committee on Bioethics, Scopi, limiti e rischi della medicina, 2001
R. Mordacci, Una introduzione alle teorie morali, Feltrinelli, Milan, 2003 (selected pages)
Teacher materials

The course includes the use of lectures and dialogues in mixed mode (in the classroom and through Microsoft Teams platform) carried out with the help of tools prepared by the teacher (Power Point and audiovisual materials appropriately selected) to stimulate discussion and involvement
by students on the topics covered.

Dr. Federico Nicoli receives after the lessons or in other times, always with previous agreement by e-mail (federico.nicoli@uninsubria.it)

Professors

NICOLI FEDERICO

Parent course