Topics in Ethics

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01013420
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
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

Theoretical and practical classes with intensive reading of fundamental bibliography on each of the topics addressed and constant appeal to students' reflection.

Students are asked to write reports on each of the topics addressed.

Learning Outcomes

Students are expected to acquire philosophical competence in the topics addressed, as well as research/reading skills and the ability to think (which is always “critical”) and to present their ideas orally and in writing.

Fundamentally students should develop:

- an understanding of philosophical meta-ethics and deconstruction;

- the ability to think criticaly about the topics addressed: responsibility, hospitality, justice, the feminine, and animals;

- an awareness of their responsibility towards life (and the living in general);

- an awareness of the cruelty and barbarity of the "carno-phallogocentrism" of Western civilization.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Ethics itself is the first topic for reflection in this course: what are we talking about when we talk about ethics? What ethics are we speaking about when we speak (here) about ethics?

Adopting a critical distance regarding ethical ideologies, both normative and/or applied ethics which pervade nearly all discourses at present, and in line with Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida's thinking, this course will reflect on ethics in terms of  meta ethics as the unconditional responsibility of the 'human subject'

Secondly, the topics of 'Responsibility', 'Hospitality', 'Justice' ('peace' and 'Human Rights'), the 'Feminine' and 'Animal' will provide the guidelines for rethinking the ‘human’ – far from the dominant scheme of "carno-phallogocentrism" of Western philosophy and culture – and the joint genesis of "responsibility" and "subjectivity".

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Fernanda Bernardo Alves

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 30.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

- M. Heidegger, Concepts Fondamentaux de la Métaphysique, Monde- Finitude-Solitude, Galimmard, Paris, 1992
- J. Derrida, Carneiros. O diálogo ininterrupto, entre dois infinitos: o poema, Palimage, Coimbra, 2008;
- J. Derrida/A. Dufourmantelle, Da Hospitalidade, Palimage, Viseu, 2003;
- J. Derrida, L'animal que donc je suis, Galilée, Paris, 2006;
- J. Derrida, La Bête et le Souverain. Séminaire I, Galilée, Paris, 2008
- E. Levinas, Totalité et Infini, Kluwer Academic,
- E. Levinas, Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence, Kluwer Academic,
- E. Levinas, Entre Nous, Grasset & Fasquelle, Paris, 1991
- E. Levinas, «Les Droits de l'Homme et les Droits d'Autrui» in Hors Sujet, Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1987, p. 173-187;
- E. Levinas, «Paix et droit» in Altérité et Transcendance, Fata Morgana, Montpellier, 1995, p. 127-155.