San Marino Scuola Secondaria Superiore - Liceo Linguistico: Philosophy

This entry details the Philosophy course content for the Liceo Linguistico track at San Marino Scuola Secondaria Superiore.

Year 4

The Philosophy program for Year 4 at Collegio San Marino covers the following topics:

• Humanism and Renaissance: Focus on the new conception of man, including Giordano Bruno's philosophy of love for life, nature, and the infinite.
• Scientific Revolution: General characteristics of the revolution. Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei's contributions, emphasizing the autonomy of science, physical and astronomical studies, scientific method, and philosophical models. Francis Bacon's philosophy.
• Rationalism: General characteristics of the movement. René Descartes's dualism, method, concept of doubt, the existence of God, passions, and provisional morality. Baruch Spinoza's pantheism, ethics, and degrees of knowledge.
• Reason and Experience in English Philosophical Tradition: General characteristics of English empiricism. John Locke's reality and knowledge, and liberal state conception. Thomas Hobbes's absolutist state conception. David Hume's critique of cause-and-effect.
• Enlightenment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's doctrine of the state. Voltaire's philosophy.

Year 5

While a specific program for San Marino's 5th year wasn't found, a general 5th-year program for Liceo Linguistico from Istituto Manin provides a potential overview of topics covered:

Immanuel Kant: Review of Kantian criticism, specifically the Critique of Pure Reason*.

• Romanticism: Essential concepts of idealism.
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Main points of his system, dialectics, and the concept of the state. Right and Left Hegelianism.
• Ludwig Feuerbach: Naturalistic humanism.
• Karl Marx: Historical materialism, dialectical materialism, and communist society.
• Positivism: Auguste Comte and Charles Darwin.
• Cosmic Pessimism: Arthur Schopenhauer.
• Søren Kierkegaard: The three existential stages.
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosophy.
• Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud.