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Syllabus |
1. Introduction to Ethics and the roots of Contemporary Ethics;
2. Human dignity and the question of the foundations of Ethics;
3. The political sphere: natural rights and civil rights;
4. Limits and challenges of Contemporary Ethics;
5. Ethics and Human Rights: from Philosophy to Political Science;
6. Historical analysis of the Bill of Rights (1689) and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Protocols, American and European Conventions on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Portuguese legislation relevant in the area of Human Rights;
7. Criticism towards human rights;
8. Ethics and politics - the issue of ethics for the public space.
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Main Bibliography |
- ARISTÓTELES. Ética a Nicómaco (Lisboa: Quetzal Editores, 2009)
- CLAPHAM, A., Human Rights – A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
- DONNELLY, J. Universal Human Rights – In Theory & Practice (2nd edition) (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2003)
- FAGAN, A., Human Rights: Confronting Myths and Misunderstandings. (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2009)
- HAYDEN, P., LANSFORD, T. (Edts.), Politics and Ethics in Review (NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2005)
- Kant, I. Crítica da Razão Prática (Lisboa: Ed. 70, 2013)
- MACKIE, J.L. Ethics – Inventing Right and Wrong. (London: Penguin Books, 1990)
- MILL, S. Utilitarismo. (Lisboa: Gradiva, 2005)
- OREND, B., Human Rights: Concept and Context (Ontário: Broadview, 2002)
- POLLIS, A. & SCHWAB, P. (Edts), Human Rights – New Perspectives, New Realities. (Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000)
- THOMPSON, D. F., Political Ethics and Public Office (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)
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