Philosophy of Law and Legal Methodology I

Code:

D400 I

Acronym:

FDMJ

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Philosophy

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S (since 12-09-2022 to 16-12-2022)

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LDB	151	Novo Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2016	4	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The course aims to help provide students the necessary tools to a critical, autonomous and sustained reflection on the law and a personal research and deepening of the themes.

These objectives will be pursued through study, reflection and questioning around some issues, more or less "classic", of the field of philosophy of law and political philosophy, using the contribution of various currents of thought, authors and  works, as well as with openness to interdisciplinarity.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students are expected to acquire knowledge in topics addressed in the discipline and develop basic and specific skills, including skills of independent research, analysis capability and critical reflection on the addressed issues, applicable in academic and professional context .

Working method

Presencial

Program

Part I - Philosophy and Law

• 1. Meanings of Philosophy
• 2. Philosophical Logos and other logoi
• 3. Law as a object of Philosophy

Part 2 - Modernity as an epochal paradigm

• 1. Kuhn’s Paradigm, Taylor’s Social imaginaries, Hermeneutics
• 2. Traces of modernity: epistemology, nature, temporality, anthropology, State theory
  3. Modernity and its crises

Part III – Modern proposals of Philosophy of Law

• 1. Logic, Ethics, Physics
• 2. Law and logical reasoning: Kelsen
• 3. Law and theoretical reasoning: Natural Law
• 4. Id.: Positivism(s)
• 5. Law and Social Contract
• 6. Law and practical reasoning: Utilitarianism; Kant
• 7. Other proposals

Part IV – Law, Politics, Ethics

 

Mandatory literature

Hannah Arendt; A Condição Humana, Relógio D'Água, 2001. ISBN: 9789727086375
Thomas Kuhn; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions : 50th Anniversary Edition, The University of Chicago Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780226458120
C. Taylor; Modern Social Imaginaries, Duke UP, 2004. ISBN: Modern Social Imaginaries
Charles Taylor; Sources of the Self, HUP, 1989
Aristóteles; Ética a Nicómaco, Quetzal, 2009. ISBN: 9789725648032
John Locke; Dois Tratados do Governo Civil, Edições 70, 2018. ISBN: 9789724412825

Complementary Bibliography

Agostinho; Cidade de Deus I, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2016. ISBN: A Cidade de Deus I
Agostinho; Cidada de Deus II, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2017. ISBN: 978-972-31-0897-2
Agostinho; Cidade de Deus III, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2018. ISBN: 978-972-31-0898-2
Aristóteles; Política, Nova Vega, 2019. ISBN: 9789897500428
Bronze Fernando José 1947-; Lições de introdução ao direito. ISBN: 972-32-1378-8
Coleman Jules; The^Oxford handbook of jurisprudence and philosophy of law. ISBN: 0-19-829824-2
Habermas Jurgen 1929-; Direito e moral. ISBN: 972-771-201-0
Hart Herbert L. A. 1907-1992; O^conceito de direito. ISBN: 972-31-0692-2
Hespanha António Manuel 1945-; Cultura jurídica europeia. ISBN: 978-972-40-4810-9
Kaufmann, Arthur; Filosofia do direito, 5ª ed.. ISBN: 9789723110630
Kaufmann Arthur 340; Introdução à filosofia do direito e à teoria do direito contemporâneas. ISBN: 972-31-0952-2
Kelsen Hans 1881-1973; A^justiça e o direito natural. ISBN: 972-40-1536-X
Lamego José 1953-; Elementos de metodologia jurídica. ISBN: 978-972-40-6737-7
Larenz Karl 1903-; La^filosofía contemporánea del derecho y del Estado
Larenz Karl 1903-; Metodologia da ciência do direito. ISBN: 972-31-0770-8
Neves António Castanheira 1929-; A^crise actual da filosofia do direito no contexto da crise global da filosofia. ISBN: 972-32-1156-4
Neves António Castanheira 1929-; Metodologia jurídica. ISBN: 972-32-0630-7
Zygmunt Bauman; Liquid Modernity, Polity Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780745624105
Rawls John; Justiça como equidade. ISBN: 85-336-1752-6
Rawls John; Uma^teoria da justiça. ISBN: 972-23-1715-6
Cícero; Dos Deveres, Edições 70, 2018. ISBN: 9789724419978
Kant; Fundamentação da Metafísica dos Costumes, Edições 70, 2020. ISBN: 9789724423838
Kant; Metafísica dos Costumes - Princípios Metafísicos da Doutrina do Direito - Parte I, Edições 70, 2019. ISBN: 9789724421797
Kant; Partilhar Metafísica dos Costumes - Princípios Metafísicos da Doutrina da Virtude - Parte II, Edições 70, 2019. ISBN: 9789724421803
H.G. Gadamer; Gesammelte Werke Band 1: Hermeneutik I: Wahrheit und Methode: Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik , Mohr Siebeck, 2010. ISBN: 978-3-16-150211-8
H.G.Gadamer; Gesammelte Werke Band 2: Hermeneutik II: Wahrheit und Methode: Ergänzungen, Register , Mohr Siebeck, 1993. ISBN: 978-3-16-146043-2
Montesquieu; Do Espírito das Leis, Edições 70, 2017. ISBN: 9789724415642
J. Schröder; Recht als Wissenschaft Gesamtwerk in 2 Bänden , C. H. Beck, 2020. ISBN: 978-3-406-76089-1
C. Taylor; The Ethics of Authenticity, Harvard UP, 2018. ISBN: 9780674987692
C. Taylor; A Secular Age, Harvard UP, 2018. ISBN: 9780674986916
M. Weber; Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft , Mohr Siebeck, 2016. ISBN: 978-3-16-154488-0
Hans Kelsen; Teoria pura do direito
John Stuart Mill; Utilitarismo seguido de Três Ensaios Sobre Bentham, Book Builders, 2020. ISBN: 9789898973160
Platão; República, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2017. ISBN: 9789723105094

Comments from the literature

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Teaching methods and learning activities

All the methods used in University teaching, such as lectures, seminars, debates, as well as essay writing for students who choose continuous assessment evaluation regime (see bellow).

Under continuous assessment regime, written reports and tests are assessment components (see bellow). 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Exame	60,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	1,00
Estudo autónomo	72,00
Frequência das aulas	64,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

According to rules enforced in FDUP.

For studentes choosing continuous assessment presence in classes is mandatory under article 33.º RAC. 

Calculation formula of final grade

1. Evaluation through final exam: according to rules in force in FDUP.

2. Besides the evaluation regime through final exam, students will also be able to choose the continuous assessment regime without final exam (optional), according to the regulations governing evaluation in force in FDUP (RAC).

See articles 34.º and 35.º/3

2.1. Under article 36.º and 39.º/1 e 3 RAC, continuous assessment grade results from:


30% - Three written reports

60% - written test

10% - Global appreciation

2.3. Under articles 32.º/2 and 35.º/1 RAC, students will be excluded from continuous assessment regime in case they do not deliver any of the mandatory elements of assessment.

See RAC, specially article 35.º/4, for the consequences of exclusion. 

Examinations or Special Assignments

Attendance compulsory (only for the students who choose continuous assessment regime)

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to rules in force in FDUP.

Classification improvement

According to rules in force in FDUP.

Observations

Besides the evaluation regime through final exam, students will also be able to choose the continuous assessment regime without final exam (optional), according to the regulations governing evaluation in force in FDUP.