Ethics
0
2024-2025
01013516
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
Lectures (theoretical and practical classes).
Learning Outcomes
In an introductory approach, students are expected to get an overview on the major issues and positions in the domain of philosophical ethics.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
I. The classical ethics and the notion of "good life"
1. Ethics and practice
2. Happyness and the notion of virtue
3. Luck, friendship and the others
II. Modern ethics and the notion of duty
1. Distinction between facts and norms
2. Duty as rational imperative
3. Form and matter in the determination of moral norms
III. Ethics and value
1. Life and values as its negation or affirmation
2. Values as norms and the questions of fundament
3. Values, Democracy and relativism.
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Research work: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Exam: 50.0%
Bibliography
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CORTINA, Adela. Ética Mínima. Madrid: Tecnos, 2000.
JONAS, Hans. O princípio responsabilidade. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 2006.
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KANT, Immanuel. Fundamentação da Metafísica dos Costumes. Lisboa: Edições 70, 1992.
LIPOVETSKY, Gilles. O Crepúsculo do dever: a ética indolor dos novos tempos democráticos. Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 1994.
MACINTYRE, Alasdair. After Virtue. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Genealogia da moral. Lisboa, Relógio d'Água.
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Para além do bem e do mal. Lisboa: Relógio d'Água,
OLIVEIRA, Manfredo (org.), Correntes fundamentais da ética contemporânea. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2000.
SCHELER, Max. O formalismo na ética e a ética material dos valores
TAYLOR, Chales. The Ethics of Authenticity. Cam. Londres: Harvard University Press, 2002.