Checking date: 10/07/2020


Course: 2020/2021

Moral Philosophy
(13807)
Bachelor in Humanities (Plan: 407 - Estudio: 213)


Coordinating teacher: VALDECANTOS ALCAIDE, ANTONIO

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
None in particular. It is essential to speak and write the Spanish language.
The ability to read and gloss texts from different periods, the listening and use of lessons of a certain length, the doubt about the representations that the present produces on itself, the habit of suspicion about the contents of the official culture, both the masses and the elites, the ironic distancing from the commonplace, the ideologies and the cultural, political and technological propaganda, as well as the practice of an elegant, hypothetical, rigorous Castilian prose far from bureaucratic language.
Description of contents: programme
Historical genealogy of the main concepts belonging to what Western thought has collected under the name of morality and study of the relations between such concepts and others belonging to metaphysics, politics, theology, poetics, rhetoric or aesthetics.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Basic Bibliography
  • ARISTÓTELES. Retórica. Gredos. 1988
  • KAFKA. Narraciones y otros escritos. Galaxia Gutenberg. 2003
  • KANT. Fundamentación de la metafísica de las costumbres. Ariel. 1996
  • KANT. Crítica de la razón práctica. Alianza. 2000
  • PLATÓN. República. Instituto de Estudios Políticos. 1949
  • PLATÓN. República. Gredos. 1986
  • PLATÓN. República. Akal. 2009
  • SÁNCHEZ FERLOSIO. Ensayos, vols. 1, 2, 3 y 4. Debate. 2015 y siguientes
  • SÓFOCLES. Tragedias. Gredos. 1981
Additional Bibliography
  • ARISTÓTELES. Retórica. Gredos. 1988
  • COCCIA, Emmanuele. Filosofía de la imaginación. Adriana Hidalgo. 2009
  • CRITCHLEY, Simon. Tragedia y modernidad. Trotta. 2014
  • JAEGER, Werner. Alabanza de la ley. Instituto de Estudios Políticos. 1953
  • OTTO, Rudolf. Lo santo. Lo racional y lo irracional en la idea de Dios. Alianza. 1980
  • RANCIÈRE, Jacques. El desacuerdo. Nueva Visión. 1996
  • RIPA, Cesare. Iconoogía. Akal. 2002
  • SÁNCHEZ FERLOSIO, Rafael. Mientras los dioses no cambien nada ha cambiado. Alianza. 1987
  • TREBOLLE, Julio & POTTECHER, Susana. Job. Trotta. 2011
  • VALDECANTOS, Antonio. La moral como anomalía. Herder. 2007
  • VALDECANTOS, Antonio. La excepción permanente. Díaz & Pons. 2014
  • VILLACAÑAS, José Luis. Populismo. La Huerta Grande. 2016

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.