Applied Ethics
Code
711031067
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Manuel João Matos
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Deeper analysis of some of the great landmarks of the philosophical tradition of ethics.
2. Discerning contemporary positioning of permanent ethical issues (such as self esteem, desire, affection, sexuality, justice, etc
).
3. Understand the impact on ethics, the contemporary problem of the ethics of discussion.
4. Relate the problems of philosophical ethics specifically with contemporary problems, such as global ethics, and environmental ethics.
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Subject matter
The syllabus is that of understanding the problem of evil in the modern era and the original context of moral predicates as the culmination of Rousseaus ethics within the ´reasoning´ of an autonomous morality. From a moral standpoint, it is constructive rather than the foundational vision that is characteristic of the autonomous moral challenge, as Rousseau and Kant. This question is referred as ´ethical´, because it concerns the ethos, the site´s existence, not the moral problems which concern the imposition of values and norms of certain specific duties and prohibitions. The situation of \"ethics law\", which is not that of a particular moral rule, but the pure form from which all moral law give the force of law to question herself.
Bibliography
─ KANT, Immanuel, Fondements de la métaphysique des murs, in uvres philosophiques de Kant. Paris, Gallimard, Pléiade, 1985, vol. II (Fundamentação da Metafísica dos Costumes, trad. Paulo Quintela. Lisboa, Edições 70, 2007).
─ KANT, Immanuel, Crítica da Razão Prática, tradução, introdução e notas de Valério Rohden (edição bilingue). São Paulo, Martins Fontes, 2003.
─ ROUSSEAU, J.-J., Émile ou de léducation, in uvres Complètes. Paris, Gallimard, Pléiade, 1969, vol IV.
─ ROUSSEAU, J.-J., Lettres philosophiques, édition Jean-François Perrin. Paris, Librairie Générale Française, 2003.
─ SCHNEEWIND, J. B., The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
─ SCHNEEWIND, J. B., The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Teaching method
Lectures and practical classes. Discussion of philosophical texts.
Evaluation method
Frequency and/or work with oral defense. Continuous assessment and class participation.