Topics in Portuguese Ethical-Political Thought (20th Cent.)

Code:

MFIL025

Acronym:

TPEPP

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Philosophy
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Philosophy

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MFIL	8	MFIL - Study Plan	1	-	10	58	270

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This seminar will focus on the tendencies and/or trends of contemporary Portuguese ethical-political thought, in order to provide a systematic vision of the philosophy of each selected author, bearing in mind the historical and cultural context of each. By establishing a link with the foreign schools of thought of philosophy, an essential objective of this seminar is also to emphasize the unity and diversity of ethical-political reflection in Portugal during the 20th century.

Program

Introduction to the Sources; Objectives; General draft of an ethical-political reflection.

1 – From the end of the 19th century to the end of the Republic
1.1 - The heritage of the 70s generation: Antero de Quental
1.2 - Teófilo Braga and Oliveira Martins
2 – The ‘Renascente’ Generation from the "Portuguese Renaissance"
2.1 – The demo-liberal vision in a spiritualist and speculative vein of Leonardo Coimbra
3 - Positivism, Republicanism, Anarchism and Socialism
4 – The institution of the Estado Novo (New State) and the ethical-political reaction
4.1 – Political doctrine and civic intervention of the "Seara Nova"
4.2 - Ethical-political thought of Raul Proença
5 - Eduardo Abranches de Soveral: his ethical-political thought .
6 – Responsibilities of intellectuals in theories and political practices (in Portugal and in the world)

Mandatory literature

Vários; História do Pensamento Filosófico Português, Caminho/ CFUL, 2001-2004
António Braz Teixeira; Conceito e Formas de Democracia em Portugal, Sílabo, 2008
António Pedro Mesquita; O pensamento político português no séc. XIX, IN-CM, 2006
Eduardo Abranches de Soveral; Ensaios sobre Ética, IN-CM, 1993

keywords

Humanities > Philosophy > Ethics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	45,00
	Exame	2,00
	Trabalho escrito	123,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	100
	Total:	100,00