Citizenship and Human Rights

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01013112
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures. Reading of recomended bibliography. The evaluation will be either final or mixed. The final evaluation will be by final exame. The mixed evaluation includes the final exam and writing a paper. Student’s performance during the lectures will be taken into account.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to provide a critical perspective on the theme of citizenship and human rights. For such a course will be developed in three stages. For this purpose, it will seek to understand the connection between the development of the concept of natural law and the emergence of the idea of human rights. Secondly, it will address the key points of the history of human rights in the context of the development of modern political thought. Thirdly, it will reflect on the political use of the contemporary concept of human rights.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I Part: From Law to Rights: the development of natural law and the emergence of the concept of human rights

1. The Origin of the Aristotelian Concept of Natural Law

2. Stoicism, Christianity and Natural Law

3. The Reformation, the “America” and Modern Natural Law

 

II Part: The historical development of the concept

1. Modern state, the right to life and security

2. Religion, freedom and privacy: the civil and political rights

3. The property and the social question: the emergence of social rights

 

III. Part: Human rights and political

1. Human rights, conflict and citizenship

2. Human rights and multiculturalism

3. Human rights, cosmopolitanism and realism.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Fernanda Bernardo Alves

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
Exam: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

BENOIST, Alain de, Au-delà des droits de l’homme, Paris, Krisis, 2004

BOBBIO, Norberto, L’età dei diritti, Turim, Einaudi, 1997

BOURGEOIS, Bernard, Philosophie et droits de l’homme, Paris, PUF, 1990

DOUZINAS, Costas, Human Rights and Empire, New York, Routledge, 2007

FERRY, Luc, Des droits de l’homme à l’idée républicaine, Paris, PUF, 1984

GAUCHET, Marcel, La révolution des droits de l’homme, Paris, Gallimard, 1989

GRIFFIN, James, On Human Rights, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009

HABERMAS, Jürgen, Die Einbeziehung des Anderen, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1996

HUNT, Lynn, Inventing Human Rights: a History, New York & London, Norton & Company, 2007

IGNATIEFF, Michael, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, Princenton University Press, 2003

SÁ, Alexandre Franco de, “A ambivalência dos direitos humanos na era dos direitos e da despolitização”, in Pensar radicalmente a humanidade, Braga, Húmus, 2011

SANTOS, Boaventura Sousa, “Por uma concepção multicultural de direitos humanos” [online]