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What Is Technique?

What Is Technique?

Code	15567
Year	2
Semester	S2
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Philosophy
Entry requirements	-
Learning outcomes	The question "What is technique?" no need to claim an immediate response; quite the opposite, it immediately invites us to take on the investigative role in which the question is played. In this sense, this UC aims to stimulate the practice of philosophical questioning, via a fundamental theme of philosophy. At the end of the UC, the student must be able to: (i) identify issues related to the technique; (ii) explain the fundamental elements of the perspectives studied; (iii) discuss answers to the question “What is the technique?”; (iv) problematize the technique.
Syllabus	1. Do, Produce and Create. The nexus between Justice and Work. 2. Technique in Renaissance art treatises. 3. Technique as a life tactic. 4. The question of technique. 5. The work of art at the time of its possibility of technical reproduction. 6. “Man is old-fashioned.” 7. Meditation on Technique in Ortega y Gasset. 8. “Technique”, “technical acts” and “nature” in “Meditation on Technique”. 9. Technique as mobilization of the world through the figure of the worker. 10. Technique and the Imperative of Responsibility. 11. Technique as a philosophical problem. Lines of current reflection.
Main Bibliography	Benjamin, Walter, "A obra de arte na época da sua possibilidade de reprodução técnica”, in: Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política, Lisboa, Relógio D’Água, 2012. Castro, Ferreira de, A epopeia do trabalho, Livraria Galileu Günther, Anders, La obsolescencia del hombre, , Editorial Pre-textos, 2011. Hesíodo, Trabalhos e Dias, 7 Letras. Holanda, Francisco, Da Pintura Antiga, introdução e notas de Angel Garcia, Lisboa, IN-CM, 1984. Jonas, Hans, The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics /or the Technological Age, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1984. Morão, Artur, “A técnica como problema filosófico. Linhas da reflexão actual”, in: Brotéria, Vol. 148 (1999), 15-35. Jünger, Ernst, O trabalhador: domínio e figura, Hugin, 2000. Ortega y Gasset, A Meditação sobre a Técnica, Lisboa, Fim de Século Edições, 2009. Platão, Protágoras, Lisboa, Relógio D’Água, 1999. Spengler , Oswald , O Homem e a Técnica, Lisboa, Guimarães Editores, 1993.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria	Methodologically, the curricular unit is taught under a plural approach to the basic philosophical question – What is Technique? -, for which each teacher introduces a perspective based on bibliographical indication. Each module presupposes prior reading of the respective bibliographic reference, with the weekly OT hour being directed towards this.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.