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15567
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| Year |
2
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
OT(15H)/TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Philosophy
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Entry requirements |
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Learning outcomes |
The question "What is technique?" does not have to claim an immediate answer; on the contrary, it invites us to assume the inquiring bid in which the question is played. In this sense, this course aims to stimulate the practice of philosophical questioning, through a fundamental theme of philosophy. At the end of the UC, the student should be able to: (i) identify issues concerning technique; (ii) explain the fundamental elements of the studied perspectives; (iii) discuss answers to the question "What is technique?"; (iv) problematize technique.
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Syllabus |
- The essence of technique
- Ancient technique, modern technique, technique and the post-human.
- The adaptation of the environment to the subject
- Unheimlichkeit of technique and the crisis of instrumentality
- Technique and time
- The essence of technique: our post-human future?
- Technique in Renaissance art treatises
- Technique, Culture and Society: a reading of José Ortega y Gasset
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Main Bibliography |
Alberti, L.B. (1565) De re aedificatoria - versión italiana: l'archittetura, tradotta in língua Fiorentina da C. Bastoli, Venetia.
Clarke, A.C. (2002) "The Nine Billion Names of God" (1953), in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, Orb Books.
Fukuyama, F. (2003). Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (Reprint ed.) Picador.
Heidegger, M. (2002) "A questão da técnica", in Ensaios e Conferências, Petrópolis, Vozes.
Hesíodo (2005). Trabalhos e dias. Lisboa: INCM; [Prometeu] versos 42-105.
Mumford, L. (2018) "A assimilação da máquina" in Técnica e Civilização. Lisboa: Antígona, Lisboa, 336-375.
Ortega Y Gasset, J. (2009) Meditação sobre a técnica. Lisboa: Fim do Século Edições.
Spengler,O. (1993) O Homem e a Técnica, Lisboa: Guimarães.
Stiegler, B. (1994) La Technique et le temps, la faute d'Epiméthée. Paris: Galilée.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Methodologically, the curricular unit is taught under a plural approach to the basic philosophical question - What is technique? -, for which a previously informed perspective is introduced by each participating teacher, with a pertinent bibliographic indication. Each module presupposes the prior reading of the respective bibliographical reference, on the basis of which a dynamic debate of the philosophical question is carried out.
The evaluation is composed of a written test of open answer to the question of the Curricular Unit (with weight 70% in the final classification) followed by an oral defence in a class context, in the presence of a jury constituted from the teaching staff (30% of the classification).
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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