Philosophical Anthropology II

Code:

FILO002

Acronym:

AFIL2

Instance: 2009/2010 - 2S

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

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
FILO	86	FILO - Study Plan	2	-	6	4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

General objective:Following on from PA I and considering that the logos of Philosophical Anthropology can only be understood close to human conditions , the objective of this subject will be to reflect philosophically upon some of the great contemporary anthropological questions.
Specific objectives:
-To develop a critical vision of the human condition
-To understand the human being and the new challenges of the contemporary world.
-To provide for the acquisition of reflexive competencies in the domain of anthropological issues
-To promote research on the themes, problems and authors discussed.

Program

1. Critical approach to a contemporary consciousness.
1.1. The complexity of time dimensions and their anthropological dimension.
1.2. Contemporarity as hermeneutics of present, as event, as hospitality and as refuge.
1.3. The primacy of responsibility in a context of threat and vital annulment.
2. Challenges of an anthropology of mystery and an anthropology of meaning.
2.1. The relationship with ontology of being as limit.
2.1.1. Challenges and limits of the communication society and the knowledge society.
3. The Foundations of Human Rights and identification of their main philosophical models.
3.1. Contemporarity as fundamental right.4. Anthropological meaning of utopia: utopia and hope.
4.1. Challenge of anthropology to ontology and theory of knowledge in the critical space of eschatology and futurology. The contributions of E. Bloch.
4.2. Utopia and constant change: historical time, over-historical time and stratigraphic time.
4.3. Specificity of philosophical conception of utopia and irreductibility of philosophical utopias in relation to political utopias.
4.3.1. Revaluation of anthropological dimension of utopia. The contribution of P. Ricoeur.
4.3.2. Notions of utopian function and utopian excess. Criticism of the conception of utopia as totality: complexity of the legacy of T. Moore; human utopia of E. Lévinas and the importance of totality intersection by infinity.
4.4. Utopia as negative concept and as anti-concept. Themes/problems as options: A) Death and suffering as anthropological issues.1. Death and irreductibility of personal experience.
1.1. Death, limit and human condition: finite, physical, temporal, immortal and eternal.
1.2. Death as possibility of Dasein and as existential phenomenon.
2. Suffering as a thought experience
2.1. Supportability and subjectivisation.
2.2. Intimate event.
B) Human condition and urban condition.
1. Anthropological dimension of space.
2. Urbanity as thought.
3. Complex construction of singular and collective identity.

Mandatory literature

AGACINSKI, S., Le Passeur de Temps, Paris, Seuil, 2000.
ARENDT, H., A Vida do Espírito (trad.), Lisboa, Instituto Jean Piaget, 1999.
AUGE, M., Pour une Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Paris, Aubier, 1994.
BENOIST, J. — MERLINI (ed), Après la fin de l’Histoire, Temps, Monde, Historicité, Paris, Vrin, 1998.
BLOCH, E., Le Principe Espérance (trad.), t. 1, Paris, Gallimard, 1976.
DIAS DE CARVALHO, A., A Educação como Projecto Antropológico, Porto, Afrontamento, 1992.
— Utopia e Educação, Porto, Porto Editora, 1994.
— A Contemporaneidade como Utopia, Porto, Afrontamento, 2000
— (org.) A Educação e os Limites dos Direitos Humanos, Porto, Porto Editora, 2000.
INNERARITY, D., El Nuevo Espacio Público, Madrid, Editoral Espasa Calpe, 2006
JANKELEVITCH, La Mort, Paris, Flammarion, 1977.
LEFEBVRE, H., “Espace et Politique”, in Le droit à la ville suivi de Espace et Politique, Éditions Anthropos, 1972.
LEVINAS, E., Totalidade e Infinito (trad.), Lisboa, Ed. 70, 1980.
LEVITAS, R., The Concept of Utopia, Londres, Ph. Allan, 1990.
LOPEZ SORIA, J., “Para una Filosofía de la ciudad”, in Urbes. Revista de ciudad, urbanismo y paisaje. Lima, vol I, n° 1, Abril, 2003, pp. 13-28.
MALER, H., Convoiter l’Impossible, Paris, Albin Michel,1995.
MANENT, P., A Cidade do Homem, (trad.), Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 1997
MESURE, S. ; RENAUT, A., Alter Ego. Les paradoxes de l’inditité démocratique, Aubier, Paris, 1999
NIETZSCHE, F., Considérations Inactuelles (trad.), Paris, Gallimard, o.p.c., t. II, 1990.
ORTEGA Y GASSET, A Rebelião das Massas, (trad.), Lisboa, Relógio d'Água, 1989
PEREIRA, P.C., Do Sentir e do Pensar. Ensaio para uma antropologia (experiencial) de matriz poética, Porto, Edições Afrontamento, 2006.
— "La diferencia como primado de lo humano", Revista ESPÍRITU, Barcelona, 135-LVI, 2007, pp. 227-236.
— ”O Outro. Por uma antropologia do sentido”, Eu e o Outro. Estudos Estudos Multiculturais sobre Identidade(s), Diversidade(s) e Práticas Interculturais, R. Bizarro Bizarro (org.), Porto, Areal Ed., 2007, pp. 216-223.
— (coord.) A Filosofia e a Cidade, Porto, Campo das Letras, 2008.
RENAUT, A., L’ère de L’individu. Contribuition à une histoire de la subjectivité, Paris, Gallimard, 1989.
RICOEUR, P., Ideologia e Utopia (trad.), Lisboa, Edições 70, 1991.
— La Mémoire, l’Histoire, l’Oubli, Paris, Seuil, 2000.
TRÍAS, E., Lógica del Límite, Barcelona, Destino, 1991.

keywords

Humanities > Philosophy > Philosophical anthropology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	2,00
	Trabalho escrito	34,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	70
	Total:	70,00