Modern Thought

Code	10953
Year	2
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Philosophy
Entry requirements	There are none.
Mode of delivery	--Face-to-face.
Work placements	--Not applicable.
Learning outcomes	--1. To identify the main vectors of modern paradigm. 2. To fully characterize the rationalist trend and to verify its importance for and in modernity. 3. To characterize empirism and to attest its importance for and in modernity. 4. To portray transcendental idealism and understand the surmount of rationalism and end empirism.
Syllabus	--1. Renaissance and Modernity: main vectors of modern paradigm. 2. - Modernity and “Reason”: contextualising the issue of Reason in authors such as Descartes and David Hume. 3 – Kant’s transcendental idealism.
Main Bibliography	--Descartes, Meditações de Filosofia Primeira, trad. Gustavo Fraga, Coimbra, Almedina, 1976; Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Oxford ,Clarendon Press, 1975 - A Treatise of Human Nature (book I, part IV), Oxford ,Clarendon Press, 1958. Edição de referência: Hume. The Philosophical Works, ed. T.H. Green & T.H. Grose, 4 vols, London, 1874-5. (Facsimile reprint, Darmstadt, 1964). (Traduções portuguesas: Investigação Sobre o Entendimento Humano, trad. Artur Morão, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1985; Investigação Sobre o Entendimento Humano, trad. João Paulo Monteiro em Tratados Filosóficos I, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 2002; Kant: . 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, 1994
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.