Topics in Ethics

Year
0
Academic year
2021-2022
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

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical/Practical classes: the teaching and learning model adopted in this unit will be based on theoretical classes focusing on the problematics and topics to be analyzed, as well as on practical classes featuring discussions and the questioning of texts of the philosophers studied and previously selected for this purpose.

Learning Outcomes

Obj.1 - Grasp the meaning/concept of ETHICS in terms of META-ETHICS in the context of E. Lévinas’s thought and in relation to the concept of philosophical ethics; Obj.2 - Understand the importance of ethics, realizing that to study ETHICS is to reflect on the meaning of the human, grasping the inextricable connection between «ethical experience» and the «experience of individuation/subjectivization»; Obj.3 - Understand that all studied topics [Responsibility, Feminine, Animal] converge to a critical reflection on the structure of the subject's subjectivity with anthropological, cultural, social, political, and legal implications; Obj.4 - Understand the singular originarity of (Meta-)ETHICS and its immediate praxistical or performative dimension, realizing the humanly educational dimension of programmed information; Obj.5 - Understand the importance, topicality, and urgency of the studied topics to develop an attentive, informed, and demanding view of the other, life, and the world.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I

Introduction

 From ethics to meta-ethics

Goals:

1º1º) – Clarify the status and meaning of ethics in terms of meta-ethics;

1º2º) - Understand that to reflect on ethics in terms of meta-ethics is to rethink the joint genesis of subjectivity and responsibility.

II

Topics in Ethics

The goal is to understand that all studied topics converge towards a critical reflection on the structure of the subjectivity of the subject, with anthropological, cultural, social, political, and legal implications.

 

Responsibility

Introduction – Philosophy and Subjectivity in the face of Responsibility

1º) – Reflect on ethics in terms of meta-ethics, redefining subjectivity in terms of ethical subjectivity;

1.2º) – Rethink responsibility in terms of ethical responsibility, by questioning and critically rethinking its traditional and dominating (autonomic) axiomatics, highlighting its characteristics, shortcomings, and risks.                                    

1.3º) – The lexicon of responsibility.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Fernanda Bernardo Alves

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Mini Tests: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

M.  Heidegger, Concepts Fondamentaux de la Métaphysique,

J. Derrida, Carneiros.

Derrida, L'animal que donc je suis

Derrida, La Bête et le Souverain. Séminaire I e II

E. Levinas, Totalité et Infini; Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence; Entre Nous, «Nom d'un chien ou le droit naturel» in Difficile Liberté; «Les Droits de l'Homme et les Droits d'Autrui» in Hors Sujet;  «Paix et droit» in Altérité et Transcendance; «A Responsabilidade» in Ética e Infinito; Liberté et Commandement

Derrida, Dar a morte

Derrida, La vie la mort 

C Pelluchon, L’autonomie brisé

R Simon, Éthique de la responsabilité

S Petrosino, La scène de l’humain

L Ponton, Philosophie et Droits de l’homme de Kant à Lévinas

H. Cixous, J. Derrida, Idiomas da diferença sexual,

C. Levesque, Par-delà le masculin et le féminin

P. Kayser, Emmanuel Lévinas : la trace du féminin

J.-Ch. Bailly, Le parti pris des animaux

J.-Ch. Bailly, Le versant animal

E. de Fontenay, Le silence des bêtes

F. Burgat, Animal mon prochain.