Citizenship and Human Rights
0
2024-2025
01013112
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
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 the 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)
NoSyllabus
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
Assessment Methods
Mixed Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%
Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
Benoit, A. de (2004). Au-delà des droits de l’homme. Krisis.
Bobbio, N. (1997). L’età dei diritti. Einaudi.
Bourgeois, B. (1990). Philosophie et droits de l’homme. PUF.
Douzinas, C. (2007). Human Rights and Empire. Routledge.
Ferry, L. (1984). Des droits de l’homme à l’idée républicaine. PUF.
Gauchet, M. (1989). La révolution des droits de l’homme. Gallimard.
Griffin, J. (2009). On Human Rights. Oxford University Press.
Habermas, J. (1996). Die Einbeziehung des Anderen. Suhrkamp.
Hunt, L. (2007). Inventing Human Rights: a History. Norton & Company.
Ignatieff, M. (2003). Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princenton University Press.
Moyn, S. (2014). Human Rights and the uses of history. Verso.
Sá, A. F. de (2011). A ambivalência dos direitos humanos na era dos direitos e da despolitização. In Pensar radicalmente a humanidade. Húmus.
Santos, B. S. (1997). Por uma concepção multicultural de direitos humanos. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. 48, 11-31.