Philosophy and Political Science I

Code:

FLUP0019

Acronym:

FCP1

Instance: 2004/2005 - 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	93	Official Study Plan - LFIL	2	3	6	-
		Plano oficial 2003 - 1º ao 3º ano	2	3	6	-

Objectives

An understanding of philosophical research in the political and social spheres. Analysis and interpretation of texts by the authors studied. Recognition of the importance and contemporeity of the themes focused.

Program

I. Introduction to the subject: political philosophy and ideologies, politics and religion; politics and economy.
1. Fundamental operative concepts: freedom, justice, power and State.
2. Factors and manifestations of political struggle.
3. Justifications of the State, types of State and their fundamental structure.

II. The Greek city-state and the genesis of political thought.
1. The Sophists, Plato and Aristotle.
2. The opposition between nature and law.
3. The relationships between ethics and politics.
4. Binomial knowledge – power.
5. Identification of the different political regimes.
6. The discovery of democracy.
7. Political utopia: the real State and the ideal State.
8. Mixed constitution and relativism of political ideals.
9. Hellenism: the Stoic and Epicurean schools.
10. The individual, friendship and cosmopolitism.

III. Christianity and the Middle Ages.
1. The statute of political philosophy in terms of the relationships between spiritual and temporal powers.
2. St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.
3. The theology of history.
4. The Christian view of Man and State.

IV. The birth of Modernity.
1. Machiavelli, Erasmus, Moore and Hobbes.
2. The Republican ideal and the State as the absolute foundation.
3. The autonomy of politics with regard to morals.
4. Christian humanism.
5. The pacifist ideal.
6. Utopia as a political method.
7. The affirmation of civil power.
8. State and sovereignty.
9. Foundations of natural right and theories of contract.

Main Bibliography

Students will be given the specific bibliography for each point of the programme during classes.
Excerpts of some of the following works analysed in class will be available at the Reprography Services:

PLATÃO, A República, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 1972.
ARISTÓTELES, Política, Vega , 1998.
SANTO AGOSTINHO, A Cidade de Deus, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 1995.
MAQUIAVEL, O Príncipe, P. Europa-América, 1976.
MORUS, Tomás, A Utopia, Guimarães Editores, Lisboa, 1978.
HOBBES, Thomas, Leviatã, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 1995.

Complementary Bibliography

AMARAL, Diogo Freitas, História das Ideias Política, vol. I, Livraria Almedina, Coimbra, 1998.
ARENDT, Hannah, Qué es la Política?,Ediciones Paidós, Barcelona, 1992.
BAUDART, Anne, A Filosofia política, Instituto Piaget, 2000.
CHATELET, Duhamel, Pisier, Histoire des Idées Politiques, P. U. F., 1982.
CHEVALLIER, Jean-Jacques, História do Pensamento Político , tomo I, Zahar Editores, Rio de Janeiro, 1983.
DELACAMPAGNE, Christian, La Philosophie Politique Aujourd’hui, Éditions du Seuil, 2000.
FERNANDES, António Teixeira, Os Fenómenos Políticos, Edições Afrontamento, 1988.
PRÉLOT, Marcel, As Doutrinas Políticas, vol. I, II, III, Editorial Presença, Lisboa, 1974.
RENAULT, Alain, (direcção de), Histoire de la Philosophie Politique, vol. I, II, Callman-Lévy, 1999.
TOUCHARD, Jean, (direcção de), História das Ideias Políticas, vol. I, II, III, P. Europa-América, 1970.
ZIPPELIUS, Reinhold, Teoria Geral do Estado, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 1971.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Explanatory theoretical and practical classes; reading of and debates on the texts analysed with the students. Supervision of assignments on the matters studied, whenever the students show interest in further research.

Software

No specific software required.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Positive mark in the final exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

Mark obtained in the final exam.

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