Contemporary Politics and Ethics
Code
722031044
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To identify systematically the issues that arouse from the relationship between ethics and politics;
b) To get a profound knowledge of actual debates;
c) To analise and discuss the consistency of those proposals;
d) To interpret in a critical way the main texts concerned with the subject;
e) To acquire competences of autonomous research.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Main subject: The Moral and Political Philosophy of Eric Weil.
1. The Place of Morals and Politics in the Philosophy of Weil.
2. Their particular logics.
3. Their concerned issues.
4. The relations between them.
5. The Kantian and Hegelian Heritages.
Bibliography
WEIL, E., Philosophie Politique, Paris, Vrin, 1989 [1956].
WEIL, E., Philosophie Morale, Paris, Vrin, 1987 [1961].
CANIVEZ, P., Weil, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1999.
GUIBAL, F., Le courage de la raison La philosophie pratique dEric Weil, Paris, Éditions du Félin, 2009.
PERINE, M., Eric Weil e a Compreensão do nosso Tempo, São Paulo, Loyola, 2004.
Teaching method
Exposition, discussion and textual interpretation.
Evaluation method
Participation.
Oral presentation of an issue.
Written paper with 10 to 20 pages.