Topics of Ethics and Applied Ethics

Code: FIL14417D

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Philosophy

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Optional.
Attendance regime and, in duly justified cases, possible online participation

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

1. To take Ethics as a topic for reflection
2. To distinguish, in the History of Ethics, the specificity of contemporary ethical problems
3. To employ with conceptual adequacy the fundamental categories of Ethics
4. To relate Ethics to different areas of human intervention (examples: Biotechnology; Politics; Sport; Health; Human Rights; Animal Life)

I. Introduction - Ethics as an open field of knowledge and debate
II. Major contemporary ethical problems
III. The current relevance of applied ethics
IV. Example of applied ethics (the example will be chosen each year)

Teaching Methods

The following main methods will be used in the curricular unit:
a) Exposure (in the introduction of themes and problems);
b) Text hermeneutics;
c) Debate (discussion and argumentation);
d) Assessment: continuous, by assessing the level of involvement in seminar sessions (40%) and an individual written work on one of the themes of Ethics and Applied Ethics (60%); or by final exam: through a written and/or oral proof (100%).