Citizenship and Human Rights

Year
0
Academic year
2023-2024
Code
01013112
Subject Area
Political Science
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 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)

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)

Albertino Paulo Vila Maior Guimarães Monteiro

Assessment Methods

Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Mixed Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

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.