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Learning outcomes |
This curricular unity aims to enable students to:
– identify the main political ideas of ancient and medieval political thought;
– understand the intellectual context of these ideas, as well as their influence on the history of Western political thought;
– reflect on the relevance of ancient and medieval political ideas to contemporary experience.
Since the learning objectives depend on understanding essential works and authors from the ancient and medieval periods, the teaching methodology involves expository segments, which will introduce these authors and works, as well as practical or applied segments, in which students will be presented with excerpts and tasked with interpreting, commenting on, and discussing them. Questions and dialogue will be encouraged in order to consolidate knowledge of the works and authors studied, and also to develop reflections on their contemporary relevance.
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Main Bibliography |
1. Core readings
AGOSTINHO, Santo, A cidade de Deus, 2 vols., trad. de J. D. Pereira, Lisboa, Gulbenkian, 2000.
AQUINAS, Thomas, Political Writings, ed. e trad. de R. W. Dyson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
ARISTÓTELES, Política, trad. de A. C. Amaral e C. C. Gomes, Lisboa, Vega, 1998.
LONG, A.A., & SEDLEY, D. N. (eds.), The Hellenistic Philosophers, vol. 1, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
PLATÃO, A república, trad. de M. H. R. Pereira, 9.ª edição, Lisboa, Gulbenkian, 2000.
LEÃO, Delfim, Sólon: Ética e Política, Lisboa, Gulbenkian, 2001, pp. 401-458.
2. Supplementary readings
BURNS, J. H. (ed.), The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350–c.1450, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
ROWE, Christopher, and SCHOFIELD, Malcolm (eds.), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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