2025
Conceptions of the Feminine and Women in Western Philosophical Tradition
Name: Conceptions of the Feminine and Women in Western Philosophical Tradition
Code: FIL14584M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Philosophy
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
The unit intends to recognize the sociocultural and political importance of revisiting, nowadays, the western philosophical tradition regarding the representations of women and acquire a theoretical framework of the contemporary possibilities of philosophizing based on the contribution of women.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. Recognize the sociocultural and political meaning of revisiting the Western philosophical tradition regarding women representations.
2. Identify operational concepts for analyzing gender issues and feminist movements.
3. Understand the philosophical reasons for the dichotomous conception of human nature.
4. Analyse, organize and evaluate critically women arguments in philosophical perspectives.
5. Build a theoretical framework to make clear women contribution to contemporary possibilities of philosophizing.
2. Identify operational concepts for analyzing gender issues and feminist movements.
3. Understand the philosophical reasons for the dichotomous conception of human nature.
4. Analyse, organize and evaluate critically women arguments in philosophical perspectives.
5. Build a theoretical framework to make clear women contribution to contemporary possibilities of philosophizing.
Contents
1. Western philosophical tradition and theoretical associations between gender and rationality: dichotomies, ambiguities, neutralities and ruptures.
2. Reasons and the representation of women in Greco-Roman antiquity: Plato, Aristophanes, Aristotle and Augustine of Hippo.
3. Reason and twomen representation in modernity: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
4. Women's criticism about the rational model that builds the feminine: Cristina de Pisano, Simone Beauvoir, Page du Bois.
5. Current controversies in feminist theory: Elisabeth Badinter,e Celia Amorós
6. Women contribution to contemporary possibilities of philosophizing:, Carol Gilligan and Martha Nussbaum.
2. Reasons and the representation of women in Greco-Roman antiquity: Plato, Aristophanes, Aristotle and Augustine of Hippo.
3. Reason and twomen representation in modernity: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
4. Women's criticism about the rational model that builds the feminine: Cristina de Pisano, Simone Beauvoir, Page du Bois.
5. Current controversies in feminist theory: Elisabeth Badinter,e Celia Amorós
6. Women contribution to contemporary possibilities of philosophizing:, Carol Gilligan and Martha Nussbaum.
Teaching Methods
Two models: a traditional one centered on the teacher and another supported by group work. According to the first model, there will be a lesson or a commented reading followed by debate. The teacher is responsable for the first one and the debate is shared by everyone.
The second model makes students responsible either for reading texts in order to search answers to fundamental questions or for presenting results.
These two models can be supported by digital resources.
Some classes may have a conference or be replaced by attendance at a colloquium connected to the curricular issues.
The evaluation considers the following elements: 1) attendance (10%); 2) participation in both activities to be carried out in the classroom (40%); 3) presentation and writing of a short argumentative text on a core subject of the program, about 5 pp (50%).
The second model makes students responsible either for reading texts in order to search answers to fundamental questions or for presenting results.
These two models can be supported by digital resources.
Some classes may have a conference or be replaced by attendance at a colloquium connected to the curricular issues.
The evaluation considers the following elements: 1) attendance (10%); 2) participation in both activities to be carried out in the classroom (40%); 3) presentation and writing of a short argumentative text on a core subject of the program, about 5 pp (50%).
Teaching Staff (2024/2025 )
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