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Aesthetics

Code	5936
Year	2
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Philosophy
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face.
Work placements	Not applicable.
Learning outcomes	The programme undertakes the purpose of providing its students the autonomy that only a critical sense can genuinely promote while it understands Aesthetics and the aesthetic as interpretative models for reality itself,without overlooking the concreteness in the stimulus to their creative capacities Students must: be able to 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 now launched in the understanding of a more deep meaning of the topic of intersubjectivity, which appears as expression of a spontaneous agreement between singulars;to grasp the meaning of the ageless theme of the relation between Art and Nature and to understand the ontological claim of a rehabilitation of sensibility.
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 other main philosophical disciplines. The achievement of such overall abilities will entail the discussion of the following topics now briefly described:B- THEMES 1)What´s Aesthetics? Baumgarten and the “invention” of Aesthetics 2) The Kant’s Aesthetics; from the Transcendental Aesthetics to the Judgment of Taste 3) The Hegelian’s Aesthetics. Art as the sensitive appearance of Spirit 4) Merleau-Ponty and the project of a “phenomenological aesthetics”.
Main Bibliography	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, 19494; . 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 . . MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice, O Olho e o Espírito, Trad. de Luís Manuel Bernardo, Prefácio de Claude Lefort, Ed. Vega, 1992. . MATOS DIAS, Isabel, Uma Ontologia do Sensível – A aventura filosófica de Merleau-Ponty, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.