Aesthetics

Code	14270
Year	3
Semester	S2
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Philosophy
Entry requirements	There are none.
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face.
Work placements	Not applicable.
Learning outcomes	While sponsoring the understanding of Aesthetics and aesthetic as interpretative models for Cultural phenomena,this CU boosts the debate of themes that gather general interest,without overlooking the goal of stimulus to creative capacities of students in the milieu of their professional activities. Students must: identify the main development stages of the sensitive condition of thought as that basic competence which will allow them to recover, in all of its extent, the self-comprehension of Aesthetics as a doctrine of sensibility; to recognize this other dimension of the aesthetic which is held to the theme of a demise of the ideal of an objectivity of taste; grasp the meaning of the ageless theme of the relation between Art and Nature and to understand the ontological claim for a rehabilitation of sensibility; identify de mutually requested features in Culture and Aesthetics.
Syllabus	A – GOALS To define the origins and the concept of Aesthetics. To characterize some of the most influent perspetives about Aesthetics .To encourage the analysis and, therefore, the understanding of fundamental texts .To sponsor a genuine interest for reflection of linking themes between Aesthetics and Culture B - THEMES: I) The rehabilitation of sensibility as key theme for Aesthetics II) The enigma of beauty: cultural and/or aesthetic pattern? III) The relation between Art and Nature IV) Imitation and/or creation? From the representative arts to expressive arts IV) Culture and Aesthetics: the existence of a specifically aesthetic Culture.
Main Bibliography	SANTOS, Leonel Ribeiro dos, “A Razão Sensível – Reflexão acerca do estatuto da sensibilidade no pensamento kantiano”, in Pensar a Cultura Portuguesa – Homenagem a Francisco da Gama Caeiro. KANT, Immanuel, Crítica da Razão Pura, Trad. de Manuela Pinto dos Santos e Alexandre Fradique Morujão, Introd. E Notas de Alexandre Fradique Morujão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 1994; . KANT, Immanuel, Crítica da Faculdade do Juízo, Trad. e Notas de António Marques e Valério Rohden, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda. HEGEL, Esthétique – Textes Choisis, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1953; Trad. Portuguesa de Álvaro Ribeiro e Orlando Vitorino, G.W.F.Hegel – Estética, Guimarães Editores, Lisboa, 1993 . MERLEAUPONTY, Maurice, O Olho e o Espírito, Ed. Vega, 1992. MATOS DIAS, Isabel, Uma Ontologia do Sensível – A aventura filosófica de Merleau-Ponty, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa . FERRY, Luc, Homo Aestheticus: a Invenção do Gosto na Era Democrática, Almedina, 2003.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria	One written test of frequency (with a relative weight 60%) + two classes report (30%) followed by a final interview, which represents the remaining 10% of the relative weight of the assessment criteria.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.