History Of Political Thought
Objectives
The aim of the program is for the students to a) understand the genesis of political liberalism; b) identify the themes of classical liberalism in its break with the political culture of Antiquity and of Medieval and Modern Europe; c) Compare the political theories of authors from the nineteenth century; d) distinguish between the liberal and the republican thought, namely in what concerns different concepts of liberty connected with each one; e) identify the limits of the liberal political model in the 19th century with regard to the universality of civil and political rights; f) evaluate, in a reflexive way, the tensions associated with the liberal postulate of ?equality as universality?; f) evaluate the inclusive and exclusionary dimensions of the above referred postulate. This program also aims at helping the students to get skills in the domain of the scientific research work, as well as skills related with the organization and the oral and written exposition of knowledge.
General characterization
Code
27127
Credits
4
Responsible teacher
Ana Cristina Fonseca Nogueira da Silva
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Amaral, Diogo Freitas do, História do Pensamento Político Ocidental, Coimbra, Almedina, 2016.
Berlin, Isaiah, ?Two Concepts of Liberty?, in Liberty (ed. Henry Hardy), Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Blythe, J.M., Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages, Princeton, 1992.
Costa, Pietro, Ciudadania, Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2006.
David Keyt and Fred D. Miller, A Companion to Aristotle?s Politics, Oxford and Cambridge, Blackwell, 1991.
Fioravanti, Maurizio, Constitucion, de la Antigüedad a nuestros días, Madrid, Editorial Trotta, 2001 (trad. do italiano).
Homem, António Pedro Barbas, A Lei da Liberdade, Cascais, Principia, 2001, Vol. I.
Jones, Gareth Stedman, Claeys, Gregory, eds., The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Manent, Pierre, História Intelectual do Liberalismo, Lisboa, Edições 70, 2015 (trad. do francês).
Pires, Diogo Aurélio, Maquiavel & Herdeiros, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2012.
Pitts, Jennifer, A turn to Empire. The rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France, Princeton, 2005.
Silva, Cristina Nogueira da, «Progresso e Civilização: povos não europeus no discurso liberal oitocentista», Estudos Comemorativos dos 10 Anos da Faculdade de Direito da UNL, Coimbra, Almedina, 2008, Vol. I.
Silva, Cristina Nogueira da, Constitucionalismo e Império: a cidadania no Ultramar português, Lisboa, Almedina, 2009.
Silva, Cristina Nogueira da, "Conceitos oitocentistas de cidadania. Liberalismo e igualdade", in Análise Social, Vol. XLIV (192), 2009.
Silva, Filipe Carreira da, Virtude e Democracia, Lisboa, ICS, 2004.
Skinner, Quentin, Liberty before Liberalism, Cambridge, C.U.P., 1998.
Skinner, Quentin, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (1º ed.: 1978), vols. I e II.
Renaut, Alain (dir), Histoire de la Philosophie Politique, Paris, Calmann-Levy, T. III.
Teaching method
Exposition of the course subject matter plus comments on original texts written by the authors selected in the program. Small units of research work composed by students on topics related to the contents of the programme or the completion of reading sheets regarding specific recommended books which are presented in a specific bibliography organised according to different topics included in the program.
Evaluation method
The evaluation gets from the classification of the scientific research work or the reading sheet (30%) and a final written examination (70%).
Subject matter
The confrontation of objectives and contents demonstrates the coherence between them. The articulation is made in a multilevel way, although some of the objectives are more directly related with some contents. For instance: content 2 is related with the objective ?be able to distinguish between the liberal and the republican thought, namely in what concerns different concepts of liberty?, but the program aims at a permanent effort to identify their presence in several authors and political theories. The understanding of the genesis of liberalism is related with contents 3 and 4. Contents 5 and 6 are articulated with the identification of the main themes of classical liberalism. Finally, content 7 and 8 are related with the identification and reflexive evaluation of the limits of the liberal political model, the tensions generated by the postulate of ?equality as universality?, as well as both the inclusive nature and the exclusionary dimensions of this last postulate.