To initiate a critical reflection on the World, the human being and his material and immaterial production; to discuss contemporary vicissitudes and scenarios generated by the great and rapid changes in the human world and their immediate and future impact on various areas of knowledge.
Semestral
What is contemporary thought?
The major currents of contemporary thought
Knowledge: Thought and experience; the mechanical and the organic; law.
Objective / subjective; Theoretical / practical; Idealism / realism
The World: monism and dualism; Evolution
Man: the problem of culture / interculturality; the question of history; the individual and society
and society; morality; personality; freedom and determinism.
Fundamental themes: The place of religion and religions; the notion of time and death
The mechanisms of power in societies; modernity; post-modernity,
complexity and simplicity; the new modes of communication; the society of
of the spectacle; ethical problems and scientific development; the organization
of society, a new humanism.
Psychology and contemporary thought: theoretical research; theory and practice; the
normal and pathological; the individual and the environment; individual and society.
Analyze the problems of evolution, the personality, the individual, the abstract / concrete and the theoretical / practical; answer certain methodological questions based on the evolutionary view on man, cultures and societies; understand the historical evolution of ideas and values and the need to think, feel, speak, do, act, that is the importance of perceiving and creating human reality.
Skills to be developed: Identify with ease the important moments of contemporary thought; acquire the ability to present clearly the main ideas and debates in contemporary thought; assimilate the main methodological issues of contemporary psychological thought.
Mandatory
The use of active methodology and giving students the chance to learn to work in an interdisciplinary context (STEAM).
Português
Não
Neves, Fernando Santos. (2011). Introdução ao pensamento contemporâneo, Razões e Finalidades. Lisboa: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas.
Popper, Karl. (1989). Em busca de um mundo melhor. Lisboa: Editorial Fragmentos
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. (1987). Um discurso sobre as ciências. Porto: Edições Afrontament.
