Ethics and Political Philosophy I
| Keywords |
| Classification |
Keyword |
| OFICIAL |
Philosophy |
Instance: 2021/2022 - 1S 
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
.
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.