Topics in Philosophical Anthropology

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Exposition of the main conceptual frameworks.

Reading and discussion of selected texts.

Learning Outcomes

- Construction of sustained philosophical points of view on specific topics of philosophical anthropology.

- Development of conceptual, interpretative, critical and reflexive skills capable of promoting a philosophical development of themes of anthropology.

- Improvement of thinking skills allowing participation, with a specifically philosophical point of view, in contemporary political and cultural debates on the human condition.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1 – Rationality and Affectivity

1.1.Conscience, melancholy and alienation

1.2.Laughter. Euphoria and Fruition.

2 – The human condition of inhabiting

2.1. Landscapes, spaces, places and sites.

2.1. Memories, histories, oblivions.

3 – Humanity, Nature and Technology

3.1. Human, pre-human, pos-human.

3.2. Human condition, “locality” and globalization.

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís António Ferreira Correia Umbelino

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 40.0%
Research work: 60.0%

Bibliography

G. Amengual, Antropología Filosófica, Madrid, 2007.

O.F. Bollnow,  Hombre y espacio", (trad. esp.), Barcelona, Editorial Labor, 1969.

D. Bourg, Natureza e Técnica. Ensaio sobre a Ideia de Progresso, (trad. port.), Piaget, 1998.

J.-P. Changeux e P. Ricoeur, O que nos faz pensar?, Lisboa, 2001.

P. Laín Entralgo, O que é o Homem (trad. port.), Lisboa, 2002.

G. Gusdorf,  L'avènement des sciences humaines au siècle des lumières , Payot, 1973.

A. Milon, La réalité virtuelle. Avec ou sans le corps?, Autrement, Paris, 2005

E. Morin, A Humanidade da Humanidade (trad. port.), Lisboa, 2003.