Topics in Philosophical Anthropology
0
2022-2023
01013414
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
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)
NoSyllabus
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.