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Syllabus |
1. Introduction to the syllabus.
2. Ancient Greece: democracy in Athens; the birth of philosophy e Plato's critic to democracy; Aristotle and politics.
3. Ancient Rome: stoicism and natural law;
4. Middle ages: political fragmentation, Christianity and the role of the Church; Magna Carta, natural law and the idea of freedom;
5. The transition to Modernity: N. Machiavelli, T. More and Erasmus of Rotterdam;
6. The theory of divine right of kings and its reactions: the School of Salamanca and theories of social contract;
7. Modern contractualism: T. Hobbes, J. Locke and J.-J. Rousseau;
8. The Enlightenment and liberal revolutions;
9. American Revolution, the Independence Declaration and the Federalist Papers: European thought (Locke, Kant e Montesquieu) in the new world (Paine, Madison and Founding Fathers)
10. French Revolution and counter-Enlightenment (E. Burke and German Romanticism)
11. The path to liberal democracy: A. Tocqueville and J. Stuart Mill
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Main Bibliography |
Diogo Freitas do Amaral, História do Pensamento Político Ocidental, Coimbra, Almedina, 2019
Jaime Nogueira Pinto e António Marques Bessa, Introdução à Política, vol. I, Lisboa, Editorial Verbo, 1999
Marcel Prélot e Georges Lescuyer, História das Ideias Políticas, vols. I e II, Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 2000
Jean Touchard, História das Ideias Políticas, vols. I-IV, Lisboa, Europa-América, 1997
Isaiah Berlin, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, London, Pimlico, 1997
AAVV, Dicionário de Filosofia Moral e Política, Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem da Universidade Nova de Lisboa; URL: http://www.ifl.pt/index.php?id1=11
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