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Ethics and Political Philosophy I

Code: MFIL036     Acronym: EFP_I

Keywords
Classification Keyword
OFICIAL Philosophy

Instance: 2021/2022 - 1S Ícone do Moodle

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 17 MFIL - Study Plan 1 - 9 75 243

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

1. To reflect on the concepts of ethics and politics

2. To discover the relationship between these concepts

3. To recognize the complexity of the problems raised

4. To take contact with issues and tasks of contemporary ethics

 

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Learning outcomes and competences

 This course aims:1. to provide a conceptual understanding of ethics and politics
2 - at understanding the conceptual framework which underlies contemporary discussions on ethics and politics

3. To develop a critical awareness of leading current debates and main topics in ethics and politics.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1.Issues of contemporary ethics
1.1 The "Political" in philosophy: delimitation of the notion political field
1.2. The rationality of human behavior and political choices. 
2- . Scope and current theories in Ethics and Political Philosophy 
2.1. Communicative-discoursive ethics. (J. Habermas)
2.2. Evil as absence of thought and totalitarianism as radical evil (Hannah Arendt)
 2.3.The good as rationality and justice as a good (J. Rawls)

 

Mandatory literature

ARANGUREN, José Luís; Ética y Política, Guadarrama, 1968
ARAÚJO, Luís de; ÉTICA, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, 2010
ARAÚJO, Luís de; Sob o Signo da Ética, Granito, 2000
Alain; L'Étique, Essai sur la Conscience du Mal, Hatier, 1995
Arendt, H.;; Homens em Tempos Sombrios , Relógio D'Água, 1991
Arendt, H.;; Compreensão e Política e Outros Ensaios, Relógio D'Água, 2001
Arendt, H; Considérations Morales, Payot et Rivages, , 1996
Arendt, Hannah; A Condição Humana, Relógio d'Água, 2001
Habermas, Jürgen ; The Theory of Communicative Action. , Cambridge: Polity Press, 1984
Rawls, J.; Teoria da Justiça, Editorial Presença, 1993
Resweber, Jean-Paul; Le Questionnement Ethique , Prosopon, 2005
Singer, Peter;; Como havemos de Viver? - a Ética numa Época de Individualismo, , , Dinalivro, 2006
SPERBER, Monique Canto (Dir.); Dictionnaire d'Éthique et de Philosophie Morale, PUF, 1996
Michel Foucault; Nascimento da biopolítica. ISBN: 978-972-44-1544-4
HARDT, Michael; NEGRI, Antonio; Empire, Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University , 2000
Achille Mbembe; Políticas da inimizade. ISBN: 978-972-608-289-7
MBEMBE, Achille; Necropolitics, Public Culture , v. 15, n. 1, pp. 11-40, 2003

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching methodologies (including evaluation): It will be followed a theoretical approach to syllabus, text analysis, presentations and debates based uponindependent research, individually as well as in groups, either way under tutoring relating to a suggested subject.

keywords

Humanities > Philosophy > Ethics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation Weight (%)
Participação presencial 20,00
Trabalho escrito 80,00
Total: 100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo 130,00
Frequência das aulas 58,00
Trabalho de investigação 82,00
Total: 270,00

Eligibility for exams

Each student will have to be present at least of 75% of the planned sessions, except for the cases predicted by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Participation and assiduity (20%),individual paper (60%) and its presentation (20%).

Examinations or Special Assignments

Non applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to present regulations.

Classification improvement

According to present regulations
 to component -
individual written work (60%) after presentation and evaluation of teachers in deadline and agreed with the students

Observations

Program for the second part of the course

Lecturer: Tiago Carvalho

- The distinction between the main intellective forms of accessing reality in Aristotle (theory,  praxis and production) and their relation to the good life;

- The critique of the modern project and the rehabilitation of teleology in Alasdair MacIntyre;

- The imperative of responsibility and the new task of ethics in the age of  technology in Hans Jonas;

- The interaction between technical and scientific progress and moral and social progress for Jurgen Habermas;

- The rationalization of social action and the consideration of the interaction between society and technology (Borgmann, Latour, Verbeek);


 

 

ARISTÓTELES. Ética a Nicómaco. Tradução por António de Castro Caeiro.Lisboa: Quetzal Editores, 2009.

BECKERT, Cristina. Ética. Lisboa: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade, 2012.

HABERMAS, Jürgen. Técnica e Ciência como “Ideologia”. Tradução por Artur Morão. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2006.

JONAS, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility. In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1984.

MACINTYRE, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame:University of Notre Dame Press [1981], 2007.

VERBEEK, Peter-Paul. Tecnopólis: a vida pública dos artefactos tecnológicos. Análise Social, vl. XLI (181), pp: 1105-1125, 2006.

WAELBERS, Katinka & BRIGGLE, Adam. Three Schools of Thought on Freedom in Liberal, Technological Societies. Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology 14: 3 Fall, 2010.

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