The course aims to introduce the students to the ability of critically elaborate a personal moral judgment and to find the conditions for a shared ethics. In addition, the students will achieve a general knowledge of the different ethical proposals of the contemporary world and their impact on the complex current social context. The goal of the course is, in fact, to enable students to learn about shared ethical values applicable to the various professional fields in which the students will engage, and in particular to the legal ones.

Knowledge and understanding: The student – by participating in the lessons and related activities – will have acquired full knowledge of the general categories of ethics and its legal implications, also in the light of the international framework. The acquisition of such knowledge will be ascertained through intermediate class works. At the end of the course there will be an oral examination. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: The student – acquiring the correct tools and methodology – will be able to interpret and apply, even with respect to concrete cases, the principles and institutes of professional ethics. He/she will be able to correlate these principles with those sanctioned at the international level. The presence of online content in the digital platform of the course and the conduct of practical workshops will allow students to verify the skills acquired constantly. Autonomy of judgment: Through the use of the methodologies acquired during the course, the student will be able to collect data and materials to analyze the regulatory sources and the relevant guidelines in doctrine and jurisprudence with reference to general ethics and will acquire the ability to evaluate in autonomy such data by formulating his/her own critical judgment on their application to concrete cases, identifying the appropriate solutions to the proposed practical cases of professional ethics. Communication skills: At the end of the course, the student will be able to master, with adequate terminological precision, the specific vocabulary of professional ethics. By participating in the various activities of the course – lessons with classroom discussions, oral exams, simulated trials, written tests, and workshops – the student will learn to put these communication skills into practice in different contexts, adapting the vocabulary to the specific situation, thus acquiring further rhetorical and argumentative skills, indispensable for one's professional career with honesty of judgment. Learning skills: The technical-legal knowledge acquired during the course will allow the students to autonomously understand and interpret the legal, doctrinal and jurisprudential changes referred to the discipline of general legal ethics. The student will develop a solid knowledge of the fundamental aspects of the subject that will allow him/her to continue to deepen the topics addressed independently and to undertake the various post-graduate professional training courses with a critical knowledge of the ethical tradition of Western civilization and some basic notions of other cultural traditions, and with a proven ability to demonstrate the criteria by which a reasonable ethical choice is intended to be made.

The first part of the course deals with the Ethics, first taking into account the history of Western thought. Then, aware of the globalized context in which we live, it will take into consideration the ethical horizons proposed by other cultures and religious traditions (Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, African and aboriginal traditions). This first itinerary will end with the enucleation (through a meta-ethical procedure and with reference to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Constitution of the Italian Republic and the Code of Ethics of the LUISS University) of those few, essential, shared ethical absolutes that, in the present coexistence between different cultures and religions, can be accepted in the individual and collective consciousness as the foundation of morality and the basis of law. The last lessons of the course will be structured, instead, as a seminar itinerary of “ethical practice”, focusing, in particular, on the objective of fairness in criminal, civil and administrative justice.

SANGALLI S.-PICCININ A., Fedi e globalizzazione, 2013 SANGALLI S. (a cura di) Opzione Diritti, voll. 1 e 2, LUISS University Press 2018-2019.

Frontal teaching also supported by the use of PPT, movies and other audio-visual material. Interactive seminar workshop, teamwork and personal written research and reflections.

The following evaluation criteria will be taken into account to assign the final grade, expressed in thirtieths: - Active participation in class (discussion and activities of brain storming) will be counted as the 5% of the final score; - Homework presentations will be counted as 20% of the final score; - The oral examination will count as 75% of final score. During the oral exam the student will be required to show that he/she knows and understands notions and principles of General Ethics, Legal Ethics and Religious Ethics and that he/she is able to apply them to practical cases. The student is expected to be able to independently analyse sources and relevant theories of Ethical judgment and to use the appropriate technical philosophical and legal vocabulary, thus proving that he/she has acquired the study method and the learning ability for carrying on, also independently, further study of the matter. The failure to achieve at least the score of 18/30 will result in failure to pass the exam.

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