Modern and Contemporary Political Thought (20136)

Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd-4th
Term:1st.
Number of ECTS credits:  5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: catalan (or spanish if the students ask it)
Teaching Staff: Jordi Ibáñez Fanés

1. Presentation of the subject

The aim of this subject is to offer, through monographic courses, the real and daily problems of the philosophical thinking about political, ethical, morality and value theory issues, as well as rebuild its origins in the modern tradition.

Timetable:

Mondays from 12:00 to 14:00

Wednesdays from 12:00 to 14:00

Tutorship: Mondays from 11h to 12h.

Teacher email: [email protected]

 

2. Competences to be attained

Transferable skills

Specific competences

1. Capacity to analyse and critically think about the ideas perceived. 2. Capacity to express the own ideas and the articulation of complex thinking. 4. Autonomous learning and independent research. 5. Motivation and own exigency in the works. 6. Moral independence and theoretical imagination.

1. Appropriate knowledge of the philosophical and theoretical-juridical literature about the idea of justice and their links to general humanities and contemporary culture issues, as well as its consequences and effects on nowadays politics and morality. 2.Select and consult specific bibliography of the philosophical and juridical tradition and the social theory. 3. Ability to understand and comment a philosophical, juridical, etc. text. 4.Precision and good use of technical and philosophical terminology. 5. Ability to relate an author thinking with its predecessors, opponents, followers or posterior trends.

3. Contents

 

This course follows and diversifies the previous courses, where the question of justice (what is the justice, what is being fair, who is fair, who represents or speaks on behalf of justice) was asked from its boundaries and the problematization of the idea and especially from the reality and the experience of justice. Within the limits of justice, and in its area, there is morality. Issues such as forgiveness, reconciliation, conciliation (or mediation) are ways of appeasement that go further, on or outside the limits of justice, and sometimes even ways that are not always institutionally and conceptually recognized as 'justice'. During this course, we will discuss the evil, taking as a centre of gravity the idea of banal evil that Hannah Arendt formulated thinking on the process of Eichmann, the Nazi in Jerusalem in 1962. But obviously we will explore the main philosophical, literary and conceptual precedents about the problem of evil, and we will treat the specific perspective of Hannah Arendt, and at the same time we will argue about the relevance and validity of her idea. The course will be focused on the thinking of Hannah Arendt, and it will have her as the epicentre, but it will not be limited to this author.

 

*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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