Philosophical Anthropology I

Code:

FLUP0500

Acronym:

AFIL1

Instance: 2005/2006 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Philosophy
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
FIL	60	Official Study Plan - LFIL	3	-	6	-
		Plano oficial 2003 - 1º ao 3º ano	3	-	6	-

Objectives

This subject is conceived for students to acquire reflexive skills within the scope of anthropological reasoning and identify the specificity and transversality of anthropological issues.

Program

1. Primordiality and irreducibility of anthropological issues.

2. Eergence of philosophical anthropology as a field of knowledge in the scope of the history of philosophy: from cosmology and philosophy of man to anthropological issues.

3. Satus of philosophical anthropology within the context of philosophy and the social and human sciences: originality, identity, complexity and transdisciplinarity of anthropological issues.
3.1 Ascendancy, crisis and prevalence of humanism in contemporary thought. Post-humanism or neo-humanism? Critical correlation between humanism and philosophical anthropology: outlines and scope of the “analytic of finitude”.
3.1.1 Importance of Jewish, Greek and Christian influences.
3.1.2 Evolutionism and critique of the biblical anthropological assumptions.
3.2 Epistemological configuration of the human sciences and of man as a scientific object of study: the place(s) of the method, the anthropologist and of Man as object/project. Man as dual empirical-transcendental being.
3.3 Objectivity versus subjectivity: from epistemological quest to anthropological questioning.
3.4. Ontology and philosophical anthropology: scope and limits of Heidegger's review of the Kantian anthropological itinerary.
3.5 Philosophical anthropology as emergence of human fallibility, fragility, disproportion and mediation.
3.6 Ethics and philosophical anthropology: anthropological itinerancy as an ethic-anthropological issue.

4. Philosophical configuration of the notion of person as value, presupposition and purpose. Demarcation of a transcendental philosophy of person. Relational person and person as a process of personation.

Main Bibliography

BUBER, M., Qué es el Hombre? (trad.), México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1984.
D’ALLONNES, M. R., Fragile Humanité, Paris, Aubier, 2002.
DIAS DE CARVALHO, A., Olhares e Percursos, S. Maria da Feira, Fund. Terras S.M.F., 1994.
FOUCAULT, M., As Palavras e as Coisas (trad.), S. Paulo, Martins Fontes, 1981.
GROETHUYSEN, B., Antropologia Filosófica (trad.), Lisboa, Presença, 1982.
HAAR, M., Heidegger et l’Essence de l’Homme, Paris, Millon, 1990.
HEIDEGGER, M., Kant et le Problème de la Métaphysique (trad.), Paris, Gallimard, 1965.
— Carta sobre o Humanismo (trad.), Lisboa, Guimarães Ed., 1987.
JACQUES, F., Différence et Subjectivité, Paris, Aubier, 1982.
KANT, I., Crítica da Razão Pura (trad.), Lisboa, Fund. C. Gulbenkian, 1985.
LYOTARD, J.-F., O Inumano (trad.), Lisboa, Estampa, 1990.
MERQUIOR, J. S., Michel Foucault ou o Niilismo de Cátedra (trad.), Rio de Janeiro, Nova Fronteira, 1985.
PICQ, P. — SERRES, M. — Vincent, J.-D., Qu’est-ce que l’Humain?, Paris, Le Pommier, 2003.
RICOEUR, P., Philosophie de la Volonté, Finitude et Culpabilité, Paris, Aubier, 1988.
SCHELER, M., La Situation de l’Homme dans le Monde (trad.), Paris, Aubier, 1979.
SERRES, M, Hominescence, Paris, Le Pommier, 2001.
SPERBER, D., Le Savoir des Anthropologues, Paris, Hermann, 1982.
TOURAINE; A., Khosrokhavar, La Recherche de Soi, Fayard, Paris, 2000.

Complementary Bibliography

To be recommended under the objective necessities of each subject-matter during the course of the programme´s development.

Note: main bibliography of Philosophical Anthropology II is recommended as complementary bibliography for this class.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Based upon the maxim of educational variability, the following methods will be used: explanatory methods (lectures), group work and research strategies, namely in terms of exploring philosophical texts and bibliographical research.

Software

No specific software required.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Students are required to attend at least 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Mark of the final exam OR average sum of the marks obtained in the final exam and in the submitted written assignments.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations in force.

Observations

Language of instruction: Portuguese.