Questões de Ética Aplicada (not translated)
Objectives
1) To know the debates about the epistemological and theoretical nature of Practical Ethics, its autonomy and its relations with other fields of knowledge;
2) To recognize the most significant contemporary paradigms of Ethics interpretation of human action and how they are inscribed in the philosophical tradition;
3) To know the concepts and principles that shape practical rationality and their multiple translations into various fields of Practical Ethics;
4) To be able to identify governing factors of regional or Practical Ethics and to discuss their relevance;
5) To have the ability to critically analyse ethical problems of some fields of Practical Ethics, distinguishing the ethical approach form other non-ethical approaches with which it has affinities;
6) To get to know contemporary debates within Practical Ethics and the most significant literature in this area;
7) To have the ability to carry out independent research in Practical Ethics.
General characterization
Code
722031058
Credits
10
Responsible teacher
Available soon
Hours
Weekly - 3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None.
Bibliography
Arras, John D. (2017). Methods in Bioethics. The Way We Reason Now. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hume, D. (2006) An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. New York: Oxford University Press.
MacIntyre, A. (2016). Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. New York: Cambridge University Press.
MacIntyre, A. (2012). Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
Teaching method
The course will work as a seminar, with a double explanatory and hands-on approach. The dominant methodology will be the analysis of literature.
Evaluation method
Oral contributions during the seminar (35%).
A written essay (between 15,000 and 25,000 characters, including spaces) on a topic to be agreed between teacher and student at the beginning of the semester (65%).
Subject matter
The public dimension of ethical discussion: between \"independent ethical reasoners\" and \"moral strangers\"
Referring to the difficulty in finding a solution to bioethical problems, Engelhardt argued that those involved in the public debate on these subjects often behave as \"moral strangers\", individuals who do not share values or traditions. This view has become a sort of assumption of public debate itself. Clearly, such an assumption not discussed or even verbalized as such impacts decisively the course of public ethical debates, influencing the manner of speech and the justifications viewed as acceptable, the type of solutions taken as admissible, and the different ways to solve concrete problems.
This course will focus on the incommensurability of ethical discourses, their genesis and their supposed irreducibility. The latest book of Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity (2016), will be the guiding thread of the analysis to be done.