- Bioinformatyka i biologia systemów, stacjonarne, pierwszego stopnia
- Informatyka, stacjonarne, pierwszego stopnia
- Matematyka, stacjonarne, pierwszego stopnia
- Bioinformatyka i biologia systemów, stacjonarne drugiego stopnia
- Informatyka, stacjonarne, drugiego stopnia
- Matematyka, stacjonarne, drugiego stopnia
Contract, Covenant, Polis & Person – themes for a normative philosophy of law 3501-CCCP18-M-OG
The theme of ‘contract’ or in a more religious or personal register, ‘covenant’, gets to the heart of something permanent and evolutionary in our understanding of moral obligation, and thus our understanding of what it is to be a person. This theme also connects how political power is justified or perpetuated – e.g., appeals to ‘the consent of the people’ – to certain beliefs about the individual persons who are supposed to be consenting. Both Aristotle and Tocqueville wondered how far personal identity may be determined by the constitution of the group, namely, the political community. The high valuation of contract in determining moral obligations in our age (consensual obligations preferred to those coming from history, status or authority), should be of great interest to modern democrats who also happen to be students of philosophy. For, contractarian politics assumes a consenting agent, a centre of autonomous moral responsibility that should be respected; said differently, a freeman with, necessarily, a free will. As is apparent, this theme immediately connects law and personhood. It would seem that a contractarian system of law and politics requires a certain metaphysical concept of the person as sui juris or ‘autonomous’ in order to support the weight of its ethical and political claims. However, there are philosophical problems with personal autonomy that remain unsolved. If it is to be relied upon as the metaphysical centre of a moral order, it must be justifiable and defensible. These lectures begin to address the constitutional problems that emerge from the over-reliance on a shaky philosophical concept.
Lecture titles:
1. Does a covenant, (social) contract, or eternal contract bind us to live a life together?
2. Is that a ‘basic law’, upon which all other laws rely?
3. Is consent necessary for moral obligation to be present in law?
4. What does our understanding of law tell us about our understanding of the person?
5. Is the modern autonomous person a sustainable model for a legal order?
6. Is contractarian politics the only way to sustain a lasting order once the naturalness of the political order has been demystified?
7. Do ‘human nature’ or ‘personhood’ provide us a starting point for law or morality?
8. Is it better to find and ground law in a concept rather than a thing/being, for example, in reason or justice?
9. If one denies either a natural order to law or a rationalist approach, is the only other option that ‘might makes right’?
10. If I am autonomous, why may I not enslave myself?
11. What is the end of the human person?
12. What is the end of law?
13. What is the end of politics?
14. Are these ends reconcilable?
15. Conclusion.
Rodzaj przedmiotu
monograficzne
Tryb prowadzenia
Założenia (opisowo)
Efekty kształcenia
Knowledge:
- has the broad knowledge of place of Contract and Covenant in the philosophical tradition;
- has the knowledge of the basic meanings of the categories of contract and covenant derived from the history of philosophy;
- has the well-structured knowledge about two types of constitutions: the political one in which positive law functions, and the personal one in which the law of conscience reigns
- has deepened knowledge of the relation between the type of political community and self understanding of a moral subject.
- has the broad knowledge and deeper understanding of particular philosophical conception and is able to contrast it with other conceptions;
- has the broad knowledge of the norms constituting and regulating political community;
- has the broad knowledge of the interdependence between philosophical ideas and cultural changes.
Abilities:
After the course student:
- analyses arguments about the subject of the lecture;
- prepares argumentation on the relevant subject and is able to defend his/her own perspective;
- creatively uses his philosophical and methodological knowledge by formulating hypotheses and creating critical arguments;
- formulate and re-construct arguments taken from different philosophical perspectives being aware of the differences and similarities between these perspectives;
- is able to find and analyze in detail controversies and problems connected with the categories of contract and covenant;
- has ability of comparative analysis of different perspectives on the main problems connected with the categories of contract and covenant;
Social competence:
After the course student:
- takes and initiates research activities;
- is reliable, considerate and engaged in planning and proceeding in research activities;
- is fully aware of the value and cultural importance and ambiguities of contractualism.
Kryteria oceniania
The final grade consists of:
activity (including attendance, preparation and participation in class discussions) - 50%
preparation of materials and conducting a group discussion (workshop) on a selected problem in the subject matter of the classes) - 20%
sending a report from the workshop - 30%
Literatura
1. Selections from the Old Testament of the Bible
Full text of the King James Translation of the Bible can be found:
https://archive.org/stream/thebibleoldandne00010gut/kjv10.txt#
Or download a PDF from the main announcement page of these seminars.
- The Ten Commandments
- Exodus 20
- Deuteronomy 5
- The story of David and Bathsheba
- 2 Samuel 11
- Daniel and the Lion’s Den
- Daniel 6
2. Medea by Euripides
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35451/35451-h/35451-h.htm
3. Selections from Book I of the Justinian Code of Roman Law*
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7LkLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=institutes+of+justinian&hl=en&sa=X&ei=txFRVIPSG4LTygPP14DgBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
*Pages 86-96 of this translation will be used, which can also be downloaded as a PDF on the main page of this seminar series.
4. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
5. Sophocles, “Ajax”
https://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/sophocles/ajax.htm
6. The American Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights
- http://billofrightsinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/DelarationofIndependence.pdf
- http://billofrightsinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/BillofRights.pdf
7. Book VII of Aristotle’s “Politics”
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6762
8. Thomas Aquinas’s “Treatise on Law”, Questions 90 and 91
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treatise_on_Law
9. William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” Act 1, Scene 1- Act 2, Scene 1
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524
10. William Shakespeare, “King Lear”, Act 1
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1128
11. The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew 5-7 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205-7
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- Informatyka, stacjonarne, drugiego stopnia
- Matematyka, stacjonarne, drugiego stopnia
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