Under this title, Professor Paola Delbosco taught a course for the Humanities Studies Program from October 28 to November 11. Different anthropological perspectives were explored with the intention of familiarizing participants with some proposals for a humanistic foundation for scientific research. The course is part of the Humanities Studies Program.

Duration: 9 hours (3 classes of 3 hours)

Format: A brief presentation of the topic in its most characteristic features and supported by selected texts will allow for broad participation of the students, with the aim of establishing a shared synthesis.

Date: October 28, November 4 and 11, from 14:30 p.m. to 17:30 p.m.

Course information

Objectives:

-that the participants question themselves about the ontological foundations of their scientific work;

-that they know the answers of various authors regarding such foundations;

– that they are in a position to explore the ethical and political consequences of the different anthropological positions presented;

– that they become familiar with a proposal for a humanistic foundation for scientific research.

Content

 I Part

• The question of man in ancient thought: atomism, dualism, hylomorphism.
  (Thales, Democritus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics).

• Some religious anthropologies: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism.
• Renaissance humanism: the greatness and originality of the human being as “Imago Dei”. Text by Pico della Mirandola “On the Dignity of Man” n.1-n.31.

Part II

Current anthropological topics:

• The biological reductionism of Jacques Monod (“Chance and Necessity” Chapter V);
• Marxist collectivism (K. Marx: “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of '44” Manuscript III);
• Existentialism (JP Sartre: “The Age of Reason”, Buenos Aires, ed. Losada 1968 [1st ed. 1950] selected parts, “The Flies”, Buenos Aires 1973, ed. Losada [1948] selected parts);
• Ethical humanism (E.Lévinas “Ethics and Infinity” Madrid 2000, ed. La Balsa de la Medusa, 'Responsibility towards the other' and 'The face');
• The human world (H. Arendt: “The Human Condition, Barcelona 2002, ed. Paidós, chapters IV and V.)
• Identity and difference (Amartya Sen: “Identity and Violence” Buenos Aires 2007, Katz ed., chapters I and II).
• Gender ideology (J. Butler “Bodies that matter” Buenos Aires 2002, ed. Paidós, chap.I).