Ethics and Political Philosophy (20118)
Degree/study: Grade in Humanities
Year: 3rd-4th.
Term: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: spanish
Teaching Staff: Francisco Fernández-Buey
1. Presentation of the subject
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the debates that take place in the ethical-political world and in the contemporary world, and also to the appropriate theoretical tools to go deeper in it with knowledge of cause and capacity to criticise. During the course we will work on six of the main ethical and political controversies that concern the academic world nowadays, both in parliaments and on the street.
2. Competences to be attained
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• Understand and interpret academic papers in an appropriate and reasonable way. • Be able to justify the own opinions with consistent arguments and also defend them in front of others. • Develop the ability of autonomous reasoning on controversial issues from enough distance to be critic. • Accept the diversity of different points of view as a fundamental component of the academic life and as an integral part of contemporary society, and be able to communicate the own opinions always respecting the other opinions. • Have developed the sense of curiosity and also the desire to know what is ignored, something essential in any learning process and in any professional activity with future. |
• Understand, locate and interpret the main ethical and political debates of the world today. • Obtain basic training for a public philosophy. • Have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data to make judgments that include a, social, scientific or ethical reflection. • Know how to give information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and a non-specialized audience. • Understand and manage the monographic studies and the literature needed to address reasonable interpretations. • Ability to interpret in a reasoned and relevant way written texts, statistical data and other documents. All with the objective of developing a well justified own opinion. • Be aware of the multidisciplinary nature of knowledge and of the desirability of transcending the boundaries between academic specialties, and in particular of the need to overcome the division between the so-called two cultures, the scientific and the humanistic ones.
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3. Contents
Unit 1. The debate on the globalisation effects
Unit 2. The debate on immigration and multiculturalism
Unit 3. The debate on sustainability
Unit 4. The debate on preventive wars, humanitarian intervention and non-violence
Unit 5. The debate on representative democracy and participative democracy
Unit 6. The debate on the role of media nowadays
*The full version with the sections: 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology, and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.
4. Assessment
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5. Bibliography and teaching resources
5.1. Basic bibliography
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5.2. Complementary bibliography
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5.3. Teaching resources
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6. Metodology
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7. Planning of activities
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