As inscrições para a 6th IPSA-USP Annual Summer School in Concepts and Methods in Political Science terminam na próxima quarta (1/10). Nessa edição o evento trará, pela primeira vez, um curso sobre métodos e problemas conceituais da filosofia política contemporânea, ministrado pela professora Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna). As inscrições podem ser feitas aqui.
Segue a ementa do curso:
Herlinde Pauer-Studer, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna
OUTLINE
This course discusses different methodological paradigms of political philosophy and their normative consequences with respect to some crucial issues in political philosophy. The main objectives of the course are: to provide an overview of normative foundations of political philosophy; to make you acquainted with different methodological approaches to central problems of political philosophy; to explore the relevance and strength of philosophical analysis of central issues in political theory and to make you familiar with current debates in political philosophy.
We will discuss the following problems: the justification of political authority; the normative foundations of ‘a rightful’ political order; conceptions of justice; freedom and autonomy; the metric of equality and distributive justice; public reason and democracy; civic responsibility under authoritarian and totalitarian political conditions. We will explore those questions by discussing relevant selections of readings, including texts by classical and contemporary philosophers.
DATES
This course runs February 2-13, 2015.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
This course discusses different methodological paradigms of political philosophy and their normative consequences. We will compare three basic models: a Hobbesian justification of political authority, a Kantian account of the normative foundations of ‘a rightful’ political order, and a Humean convention-based approach to social systems. We will then analyze and discuss conceptions of justice, freedom and equality, public reason and democracy. A further topic is global justice. Finally, we will look at civic responsibility under authoritarian and totalitarian political conditions.
Course Plan
1. Philosophical Foundations of Society and State Authority
2. Self-Interest, Impartiality, and Rational Agreement: Conceptions of Justice
3. Freedom and Autonomy
4. The Metric of Equality and Distributive Justice
5. Equality and Freedom
6. Global Justice
7. Public Reason and Deliberative Democracy
8. Procedural Democracy and Epistemic Justice
9. Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism
10. Law, Morality, and Politics
PREREQUISITES
There are no prerequisites except the willingness to work hard reading some quite challenging philosophical material.
