Ethics I

Scholar Year: 2019/2020

Courses

Weekly workload Hours/week T TP P PL TC S E EL OT TPL O OT/PL Type of classes 1,67 ,67 Lectures Type Teacher Classes Hours Theoretical Totals 1 1,67 Seminário Totals 1 0,67

Teaching language

Portuguese

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

Learning Outcomes
Develops knowledge of philosophical ethics
Identifies and respects their values ​​and beliefs and those of others
Fits the principles of argumentation ethics and conduct in the classroom
Examines in depth a principle, virtue or value
Accountable for its actions and the judgments

Skills and competency elements
1. Develops knowledge of philosophical ethics
1.1. Articulates principles, virtues and values
1.2. Relates dignity and human rights
2. Identifies and respects their values ​​and beliefs and those of others
2.1. understands the importance of identifying personal beliefs and values
2.2. reflects on the importance of personal beliefs and values
2.3. trains abstaining from value judgments about people's behavior
3. Explicit decision making appropriately contextualized and
3.1. identifies the constituent elements of problematic situations
3.2. identifying alternatives to solve a problem
3.3. weighing up the risks and benefits with regard to solutions to be adopted
3.4. discriminates ethical principles underlying decisions
3.5. differentiates, prioritizing the ethical reasons of purely technical
3.6. compares the values ​​with those of other
3.7. argues from the standpoint of ethical principles
4. Accountable for its actions and the judgments which prepares
4.1. reflects on their own decision-making processes that performs
4.2. identifies the steps of your mental process
4.3. analyze your thought process for decision making
5. Examines in depth a principle, virtue or value
5.1. performs written work, which make your choice and bases;
5.2. describes and analyzes adequately in a logical and semantic meaning
5.3. reflects confronting authors argument and expressing itself

Syllabus

1. Ethics - basics. Relationship with Morale in Axiology, Deontology and Law.
2. Virtues and Values​​; reasoning of the hierarchy of values​​.
3. The Person - Dignity of the person. Otherness and relationship with the Other.
4. Dignity and human rights.
5. Ethics of life: understanding the human body, life, suffering.
6. The Acting - Process of decision making. Freedom, responsibility and duty. Relation to citizenship
7. Theoretical perspectives of ethics.
8. Ethics and philosophical relationship to applied ethics.

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

Lectures, discussion.
Dynamics of working groups, shared in plenary.

Teaching methodologies

Avaliação apenas com exame final

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

continuous assessment

1. Synthesis in group work on a Theory Ethics (Listing in Appendix to UC Orientation Guide). Maximum of 10 pages each. Presentation - 10 '. 25%
2. Individual essay, centered on the description and analysis of the concept of ethics, principle, virtue or value - free choice by the student. 75%
Maximum of 20 pages of text. Delivery scheduled until the day January 4, 2013
(every 24 hours of delay penalty of 0.5 points).
The final grade must be higher than 9.5 for the realization of the course.

exame
In normal time, according to schedule exams.

Software

Office - word, powerpoint

Keywords

Humanities > Philosophy > Ethics

Mandatory Bibliography