European Political Philosophy
0
2024-2025
01013134
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
The curricular unit aims to familiarize students with basic features of philosophical thought in the field of politics, both in an historical and thematic perspective.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Part I: The emergence of Greek political philosophy
1. The relationship between politics and philosophy: Plato.
2. The relationship between ethics and politics: Aristotle.
Part II: Ethics and politics in modernity
1. Machiavelli’s anthropological pessimism
2. Sovereignty, representation and covenant: Thomas Hobbes
3. Property, contract and freedom: John Locke
4. Popular sovereignty and the general will: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5. The goal of overcoming the state of nature and the peace: Immanuel Kant
Part III: Ethics and politics in contemporary
1. State and Society: Hegel and Karl Marx
2. The concept of the political: Carl Schmitt
3. Politics and Life: Michel Foucault.
Assessment Methods
Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Mixed Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%
Bibliography
Aristóteles (1998). Política. Vega.
Esposito, R. (2010). Bios. Edições 70.
Foucault, M. (2006). É preciso defender a sociedade. Livros do Brasil.
Foucault, M. (1994) História da Sexualidade, I. Relógio d'Água.
Hegel (1996). Fenomenologia do Espírito. Vozes.
Hobbes, T. (1995). Leviatã. INCM.
Kant, Immanuel. (1992). A paz perpétua e outros opúsculos. Edições 70.
Locke, J. (2007). Segundo Tratado sobre o Governo. Gulbenkian.
Maquiavel. (2008). O Príncipe. Círculo de Leitores.
Marx, K. (1975). Manifesto do Partido Comunista. Avante.
Montesquieu (2011). O Espírito das Leis. Edições 70.
Platão (1990). República. Gulbenkian.
Rousseau (1993). Do Contrato Social. Flammarion.
Schmitt, C. (1992). O Conceito do Político. Vozes.
Strauss, L. Cropsey, J. (ed.) (1987). History of Political Philosophy. The University of Chicago Press.