Tolerance, Human Rights and Juridicity

Recommended Prerequisites

No specific prerequisites are recommended.

Teaching Methods

Exposition, exploration and discussion of themes starting from accompanied readings, and consequent presentation and discussion of written works as a basis for critical debate and reflection.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this seminar concentrates in the problematization of the contemporary multiplicity of perspectives of legal thinking in face of the growing heterogeneity and  complexity of juridically relevant intersubjectivity – conferring an essential prominent position, as a normatively densifying assumption and conferring meaning, to the problem of the foundation of law, between Normativism (s), Functionalism (s) and Jurisprudentialism (s) – specifically reflecting on the extrajuridical demands increasingly imposed to law, arising from the most diverse, and sometimes contradictory, ideological-political domains, of course, but also moral, religious, economic, and scientific in general, currently called upon in the collision of discourses between tolerance and human rights and between these and juridicity.      

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Perspectives of juridicity in scenario(s) of cultural pluralism: between liberalisms and communitarianisms - Normativism(s), Functionalism(s) and Jurisprudentialism(s) - and beyond ...

2. Tolerance and juridicity

2.1. Tolerance as a requirement (-virtue (?)) - ethics, morals, politics, legal ...

2.2. Procedurally formal and substantively normative perspectives of tolerance: diachronic and synchronic manifestations

2.3. (Im)possibility of juridical assimilation of the tolerance requirement

3. Human rights and juridicity

3.1. Human rights - ethical, moral, political, juridical perspectives ...

3.2. Procedurally formal and substantively normative perspectives of human rights: diachronic and synchronic manifestations

3.3. (Im)possibility of juridical assimilation of human rights

4. Tolerance and human rights: limits of/to juridicity…?     

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Margarida Simões Gaudêncio

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

Gaudêncio, Ana M., O intervalo da tolerância nas fronteiras da juridicidade, Coimbra, 2019

Forst, R., Toleranz im Konflikt, Suhrkamp, 2003

Cruft, Rowan/Liao, S. Matthew/Renzo, Massimo (Ed.), Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2015

Habermas, Jürgen, Die Einbeziehung des Anderen. Studien zur politischen Theorie, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1996

Linhares, J. M., “Jus Cosmopoliticum e Civilização de Direito: as 'alternativas' da tolerância procedimental e da hospitalidade ética”, BFDUC, 82, 2006, 135-180

Marques, M. Reis, “A dignidade humana como prius axiomático”, in M. Costa Andrade et al. (Org.), Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor J. Figueiredo Dias, Coimbra Editora, 2009, IV, 541-566

António Castanheira NEVES, A crise actual da Filosofia do Direito no contexto da crise global da Filosofia. Tópicos para a possibilidade de uma reflexiva reabilitação, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 2003

Bronze, F. J., Analogias, Coimbra Editora: Coimbra, 2012