Ethics

Code	5947
Year	3
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	This curricular unit is an introduction to ethics that aims to limit its scope and to present the main types of ethics. At the end of the unit students should be able to (i) limit the scope of ethics; (ii) discuss the relationship between ethics, politics and law; (iii) identify different types of ethics and describe their characteristics.
Syllabus	1. Introduction 1.1. Circumscription of the concept of ethics: etymological sense, definition and distinction of the concepts of ethics and moral 1.2. The epistemological character “sui generis” of the ethical discourse 1.3. Ethics, politics and law 2. Typology of Ethics 2.1. Teleological ethics and deontological ethics 2.2. Ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility 2.3. Classical utilitarianism and utilitarianism of preferences
Main Bibliography	ARISTÓTELES, Ética a Nicómaco, Lisboa, Quetzal Editores, 2004. CAMPS, V. (org.), Historia de la Ética, vols. 1 e 2, Madrid, Crítica, 1999; Historia de la Ética, vol. 3, Madrid, Crítica, 2000. KANT, Immanuel, Fundamentação da metafísica dos costumes, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1997.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.