2025
Landscape Ethics
Name: Landscape Ethics
Code: PAO13884M
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Philosophy
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Presentation of ethics in a historical perspective to guide and propitiates the capacity to think conceptually and to describe situations and problems focusing on nuclear Ethics Landscape, Nature and Landscape Architecture.
1. Focus on philosophical conceptions of nature and focus on the problems posed to philosophy by contemporary complex environmental situation.
2. Recognize the historic, cultural, civilization and dimension of ecological problems.
3. Provide an understanding of the epistemology of ecology as a scientific discipline in its various aspects and perspectives.
4. Provide an introduction to the problems of ethics and environmental policies and their dilemas.
1. Focus on philosophical conceptions of nature and focus on the problems posed to philosophy by contemporary complex environmental situation.
2. Recognize the historic, cultural, civilization and dimension of ecological problems.
3. Provide an understanding of the epistemology of ecology as a scientific discipline in its various aspects and perspectives.
4. Provide an introduction to the problems of ethics and environmental policies and their dilemas.
Contents
Cultural traditions and notions of nature and environment.
1. The old cosmos and chaotic harmony between the human microcosm and the cosmic totality. Ethics, aesthetics, law and natural religion, the pre-Socratics to Lucretius.
2. The medieval Mundus: the sacred, matter and human, from S. Agostinho to Buridan. The limits of ecumenical and imaginary loci.
3. The modern Universus, from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century; from Utopia to the domain of nature. The emergence of applied sciences and technical transformation of reality.
4. The contemporary environment: The ecological consequences of technology and emergence of the cyberworld. Global urbanization and the climate change. The contemporary environmental ethics, economic development and sustainability, the possibility of a new paradigm: from dominance towards respect and responsibility and its limitations. An ethics for the contemporary landscape, the ethics of contemplation.
1. The old cosmos and chaotic harmony between the human microcosm and the cosmic totality. Ethics, aesthetics, law and natural religion, the pre-Socratics to Lucretius.
2. The medieval Mundus: the sacred, matter and human, from S. Agostinho to Buridan. The limits of ecumenical and imaginary loci.
3. The modern Universus, from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century; from Utopia to the domain of nature. The emergence of applied sciences and technical transformation of reality.
4. The contemporary environment: The ecological consequences of technology and emergence of the cyberworld. Global urbanization and the climate change. The contemporary environmental ethics, economic development and sustainability, the possibility of a new paradigm: from dominance towards respect and responsibility and its limitations. An ethics for the contemporary landscape, the ethics of contemplation.
Teaching Methods
Oral presentation conferences.
Tests, papers, critical reviews (individual and group). The weighting of the tests, papers and individual critical review is 2 and group work 1
Tests, papers, critical reviews (individual and group). The weighting of the tests, papers and individual critical review is 2 and group work 1
Teaching Staff
- Jorge Alberto Santos Croce Rivera [responsible]
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