Philosophy and Culture in Portugal - 1st semester
Code
711031020
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 acquire basic knowledge on the movement of ideas in Portugal, in an European context.
b) To acquire the capacity of questioning concepts as modernity, Lights, Tradition, authority, nature, reason;
c) To acquire a deeper knowledge of the Portuguese Illustration in the 18th Century.
d) To evaluate the sense of the debate that occurred during the reception of Cartesianism and empiricism at that time;
e) To characterise the thought of a group of relevant authors in that given context.
Prerequisites
Non existent.
Subject matter
0. Portugal and Europe diachronical perspectives of modernity.
1. Illustration, Enlightenment, Lumières and Aufklärung: similitude and differences.
2. Portuguese Illustration problems and characteristics.
3. Five authors:
Luís António Verney
António Ribeiro Sanches
Teodoro de Almeida
José Anastácio da Cunha
Tomás António Gonzaga.
Bibliography
AA.VV., (1990). Anastácio da Cunha 1744/1787. O matemático e o poeta. Lisboa: INCM.
ARAÚJO, A. C. (2003). A cultura das Luzes em Portugal. Temas e problemas, Lisboa: Horizonte.
CALAFATE, P. (1994). A ideia de Natureza no século XVIII em Portugal. Lisboa: IN-CM.
CALAFATE, P. (2001). História do Pensamento Filosófico Português, III As Luzes. Lisboa: Caminho.
DIAS, J.S.S. (1982). Pombalismo e teoria política. Lisboa: Centro de História da Cultura da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
ISRAEL, J. (2011). Democratic Enlightenment. New York: Oxford U. Press.
DOMINGUES, F. C. (1994). Ilustração e catolicismo. Teodoro de Almeida. Lisboa: Colibri.
MACHADO, F. A. (2001). Educação e cidadania na Ilustração Portuguesa. Ribeiro Sanches. Porto: Campo das Letras.
PEREIRA, J. E. (2004): Percursos de História das Ideias. Lisboa: INCM.
SCHMIDT, J. (ed.) (1996): What is Enlightenment?: eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions, Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Teaching method
Dialogued lecture. Analysis of documents. Reading and interpretation of texts.
Evaluation method
Participation at the proposed activities (10%).
1 essay with 5 to 10 pages (50%).
1 commentary of text (40%).