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Syllabus |
1.Introduction to the syllabus.
2. The birth of "philosophy". Pericles and the eulogy to democracy. Plato and Aristotle: the laws and the regimes.
3. Magna Carta (1215): the ideas of the common law and the rule of law, the privilege and the idea of freedom.
4. Machiavel: politics as science, republicanism and virtue.
5. Hobbes: contractualism, sovereignty, representation.
6. Locke: limited government and tolerance. Confrontation with the tolerance of More and Voltaire.
7. Vico and Montesquieu : the new science, the customs, the "climat" and the separation of powers.
8. The American Revolution (1774-91), the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Federalist Papers (1787-88).
9. Rousseau, Sieyès, and Constant: social contract, popular sovereignty and general will.
10. Burke, Hamann, and Herder: counter-Enlightenment and Romanticism.
11. Tocqueville and Stuart Mill: democracy and freedom.
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Main Bibliography |
Berlin, I. Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, London, Pimlico, 1997.
Rosas, J, C. (coord.). História daFilosofia Política, Lisboa, Editoral Presença, 2020.
Skinner, Q, Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1978
Strauss, L.; Joseph, C.(Eds.). History of Political Philosophy, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Touchard, J., História das Ideias Políticas, Lisboa, Europa-América, 1997
Voegelin, E. History of Political Ideas, Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1985
AA.VV., Dicionário de Filosofia Moral e Política, Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, On-line: http://www.ifl.pt/index.php?id1=11.
Other specific readings will be suggested during classes.
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