Political Philosophy
Code: 100284 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500246 Philosophy | OB | 2 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jordi Riba Miralles
- Email:
- jordi.riba@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
No prerequisite.
Objectives and Contextualisation
1. It will be about knowing the evolution of European political institutions from the perspective of philosophy.
2. Therefore, although the course will focus on conceptual analysis, it will be carried out in a historical order.
3. However, the historical approach will be carried out from the present, that is, based on the issues and problems that currently arise in political philosophy.
4. In addition, the political theme has always been closely related to other "areas" of philosophy: ethics above all, but also epistemology or even ontology. Then you will have to know how to move in those other areas according to the author considered.
5. It is intended that the student learns to guide their study with full awareness of these interrelationships.
Competences
- Analysing and summarising the main arguments of fundamental texts of philosophy in its various disciplines.
- Applying the knowledge of ethics to the moral problems of society, and assessing the implications about the human condition of changes in the world of contemporary techniques.
- Recognising and interpreting topics and problems of philosophy in its various disciplines.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
Learning Outcomes
- Accurately drawing up normative texts.
- Accurately using the specific lexicon of the history of philosophy.
- Autonomously searching, selecting and processing information both from structured sources (databases, bibliographies, specialized magazines) and from across the network.
- Correctly, accurately and clearly communicating the acquired philosophical knowledge in oral and written form.
- Effectively communicating and applying the argumentative and textual processes to formal and scientific texts.
- Establishing relationships between science, philosophy, art, religion, politics, etc.
- Expressing both orally and in written form, the issues and basic problems of the philosophical tradition.
- Indicating and summarising the common content of several manifestations of various fields of culture.
- Relating the characteristic elements and factors of the philosophical tradition.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Summarising the main arguments of the great contemporary texts of ethics and political philosophy.
- Summarising the topics and arguments exposed in a classical philosophical debate.
- Using suitable terminology when drawing up an academic text.
Content
Introduction
I. The ancient community.
a) Plato against the sophists: the art of the politician.
b) Aristotle: politics as a way of life.
c) Cicero: republicanism and ius humanum.
II. The transition to modernity.
a) Contributions of Christianity to political philosophy.
b) Machiavelli: the reason of State.
c) Jean Bodin: the concept of sovereignty.
III. Theories of the social pact.
a) Hobbes: the absolutism of state power.
b) Locke: natural rights and liberalism.
c) Rousseau: the collective political subject.
IV. The constitutional State.
a) Kant and the cosmopolitan Idea.
b) Towards a philosophy of history.
Methodology
During the face-to-face sessions, the teacher will present the subjects of the program with special emphasis on the main concepts, which will be framed in the appropriate argumentation. Thus, this exhibition will also offer guidelines for reading texts.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Master class | 35 | 1.4 | 6, 9, 2 |
| Text reading orientation | 10 | 0.4 | 3, 6, 9, 12 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Tutorials | 20 | 0.8 | 3, 4 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Reading the recommended bibliography | 50 | 2 | 9 |
| Study and preparation of works | 27.5 | 1.1 | 3, 1, 6, 7, 5, 13, 9, 2 |
Assessment
First test:
It will consist of a presentation
Second test:
It will consist of a written exam during the class time slot.
Third test:
It will consist of a written exam during the class time slot.
The single assessment will be a written test consisting of three parts:
-Short questions to develop of the first part of the subject (40%)
-Short questions to develop of the second part of the subject (40%)
-text commentary (20%)
The recovery of the single evaluation will be of the same characteristics.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First test: presentation | 40% of the final grade | 2.5 | 0.1 | 3, 4, 1, 6, 7, 5, 13, 9, 11, 12, 2 |
| Second test: exam. | 30% of the final grade | 2.5 | 0.1 | 8, 3, 4, 1, 7, 5, 13, 10, 9, 12, 2 |
| Third test: exam | 30% of the final grade | 2.5 | 0.1 | 8, 3, 4, 1, 7, 5, 13, 10, 9, 12, 2 |
Bibliography
General Bibliography
Hampsher-Monk, Iain, Historia del pensamiento político moderno, Ariel, Barcelona.
Held, David, Modelos de democracia, Alianza, Madrid.
Raynaud, Philippe/Rials, Stéphane, Diccionario Akal de Filosofía Política, Akal, Madrid.
Sabine, George H., Historia de la teoría política, Fondo Cultura Económica (FCE), México/Madrid.
Touchard, Jean, Historia de las ideas políticas, Tecnos, Madrid.
Vallespín, Fernando (recop.), Historia de la teoría política, Alianza.
Bibliography by subject
I. The ancient community.
Agamben, Giorgio, Opus Dei. Arqueología del oficio, Pre-Textos, València – Adriana Hidalgo, Buenos Aires.
Arendt, Hannah, La condició humana, Empúries, Barcelona [cap. IV, ap. 21].
Bowra, Cecil Maurice, La Atenas de Pericles, Alianza.
Cacciari, Massimo, Geo-filosofía de Europa, Aldebarán, Madrid.
Constant, Benjamin, Sobre el espíritu de conquista. Sobre la libertad en los antiguos y en los modernos, Tecnos.
Fustel de Coulanges, Numa Denis, La ciudad antigua, Península – Edhasa – Iberia.
Weil, Simone, La fuente griega, Trotta, Madrid.
II. The transition to modernity.
Arquillière, Henri Xavier, El agustinismo político, Edicions de les Universitats de Granada i València.
Burckhardt, Jacob, La cultura del Renacimiento en Italia, Edaf, Madrid.
Guardini, Romano, El espíritu de la liturgia, Centre Pastoral Litúrgica, Barcelona.
Kantorowicz, Ernst Hartwig, Los dos cuerpos del rey: un estudio de teología política medieval, Alianza – Akal.
Lefort, Claude, Maquiavelo. Lecturas de lo político, Trotta.
Schmitt, Carl, Catolicismo y forma política, Tecnos.
– , La dictadura, Alianza.
Strauss, Leo, Derecho natural e historia, Círculo de Lectores, Barcelona.
Tönnies, Ferdinand, Comunitat i associació, Edicions 62.
Ullmann, Walter, Principios de gobierno y política en la Edad Media, Alianza.
Weber, Max, L’ètica protestant i l’esperit del capitalisme, Edicions 62.
- , El político y el científico, Alianza.
III. Theories of the social pact.
About Hobbes
Bobbio, Norberto, Thomas Hobbes, FCE.
Monserrat, Josep, Thomas Hobbes: La fundació del l’Estat Modern, Gedisa, Barcelona.
Oakeshott, Michael, El Estado europeo moderno, Paidós/ICE-UAB.
Schmitt, C., El Leviathan en la teoría del Estado de Thomas Hobbes, Comares, Granada.
Strauss, L., La filosofía política de Hobbes, FCE.
Tönnies, f., Hobbes: vida y doctrina, Alianza.
Zarka, Yves-Charles, Hobbes y el pensamiento político moderno, Herder, Barcelona.
About Locke
Ashcraft, Richard, Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, Unwin Hyman, London.
Bobbio, Norberto, Locke e il diritto naturale, G. Giappichelli, Torino [Locke y el derecho natural Tirant lo Blanch, València, electrónico y en papel.]
Dunn, John, Locke. A Very ShortIntroduction, Oxford University Press.
– , The Political Thought of John Locke, Cambridge University Press.
Grant, Ruth W., John Locke’s liberalism, Chicago Universiy Press.
Iversen Vaugh, Karen, John Locke: economista y sociólogo, F.C.E.
Macpherson, C.B. (Crawford Brough), La teoría política del individualismo posesivo: de Hobbes a Locke, Trotta.
About Rousseau (and Montesquieu)
Althusser, Louis, Montesquieu: la política y la historia, Ariel.
Aron, Raymond, Las etapas del pensamiento sociológico, Herder.
Durkheim, Émile, Montesquieu y Rousseau: precursores de la sociología, Tecnos.
Iglesias, Mª Carmen, El pensamiento de Montesquieu: política y ciencia natural, Alianza.
Cassirer, Ernst, The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Columbia Univ. Press, New York.
Grimsley, Ronald, La filosofía de Rousseau, Alianza.
Masters, Roger Davis, The Political Philosophy of Rousseau, Princeton University Press, New Jersey.
Rubio Carracedo, José, ¿Democracia o representación? Poder y legitimidad en Rousseau, CEC.
IV. The constitutional State.
Arendt, H., Conferencias sobre la filosofía política de Kant, Paidós.
Aubenque, P., “La prudencia en Kant”, dins La prudencia en Aristóteles, Crítica.
Colomer, José Luis, “Immanuel Kant”, a F. Vallespín (ed.), Historia de la Teoría Política, v. 3.
Foucault, Michel, Sobre la Ilustración, Tecnos.
Olesti, Josep, “Kant, un realista polític?”, a Comprendre, any IV, 2002/1.
Philonenko, Alexis, La théorie kantienne de l’histoire, J. Vrin, Paris.
Turró, Salvi, Lliçons sobre història i dret a Kant, Edicions Universitat de Barcelona.
– , Tránsito de la naturaleza a la historia en la filosofía de Kant, Anthropos, Barcelona.
Williams, Howard, Kant’s Political Philosophy, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Software
No specific software is needed.