Philosophy of History
Code
711031080
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
João Luís Lisboa
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To understand the main representations of time as general sources of meaning;
b) To establish a relationship between historical interpretation and the set um of a sense for history;
c) To Interpret three philosophical perspectives of the historical course;
d) To analyze different forms of historical determinism and discuss its merits;
e) To evaluate the anthropological, cultural, social and political significance of philosophical perspectives of the human course studied.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. What may be a Philosophy of History and how it has been understood – what happened and what is written about what has happened.
2. Problems and concepts (sense, time, cicle, progress, explanation, historical laws, nature, finality, end);
3. Recent perspectives on Philosophy of History between stability and chaos;
4. Some classical authors (Voltaire, Condorcet and Kant).
Bibliography
Brun, J. (1996). Philosophie de l´histoire. Les promesses du temps, Paris: Ed. Stock.
Catroga, F. (2003). Caminhos do fim da História, Coimbra: Quarteto.
Erlich, D. (2013). A noção de progresso no pensamento de Richard Rorty. Cultura. Revista de História e Teoria das Ideias, 31, 361-386.
Jay, M. (2013). Intention and Irony: The Missed Encounter between Hayden White and Quentin Skinner. History and Theory, 52, 32-48.
Tucker, A. (ed.) (2011). A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Löwith, K. (1958). El sentido de la Historia. Madrid: Aguilar.
Mattoso, J. (2012). Levantar o Céu. Os labirintos da Sabedoria. Lisboa: Temas e debates.
Rossi, P. (2012). Il senso della storia. Dal Settecento al Duemila. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Skow, B. (2012). Why Does Time Pass?. Nous, 223-242.
Yovel, Y. (1980). Kant and the Philosophy of History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Teaching method
Dialogued lecture. Analysis of documents. Reading and interpretation of texts.
Evaluation method
Written paper (50%), interventions during the classes (10%). Short essay on a text (40%).