Class Society and Law Seminar

This curricular unit endeavours exploring the  Western experience of Law related with the macroscopic perspective of collective identity (and its specifying  contexts) from the perspective which contemporary juridical discourse (admitting diverse concepts of Law and the projection of heterogenous  theories of Justice) effectively allows, with a specific concentration on some of the decisive problems of our time (multicultural fragmentation, terrorism, the challenges of artificial intelligence, the ethics of the politically correct, the holistic continuum of biological neoecology, the pandemic experience, the reinterpretation of confinement and exile)

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The starting point: the "grid" concerning the binomial coomunitas/societas.  Cap. I/ The concept of societas autonomously introduced in the modern cycle and its projection in contemporary legal thinking: the social contract trend concentrated on its peak (Rousseau); the arguments of Kant and Bentham; the legacy of 19th century¿s reinvention of dialectics (from Hegel and Marx to the successive generations of the Frankfurt school); the conceptions of societas privileged  by critical rationalism and by autopoietic functionalism; the Rawls/Habermas counterpoint; the proposals of economic pragmatism. Cap. II/ The return of community: the reinvention of practical philosophy (hermeneutics as philosophy, argumentation as a form of life); the communitarian approach; Deconstruction as philosophy; the return of natural law tradition.  Cap III/The experience of law from the perspective of the constitutive dialectics between society and community: some exemplary problems.   

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Linhares, J. M. Aroso (2012). «Jurisprudencialismo: uma resposta possível num tempo de pluralidade e de diferença?», in Nuno Santos Coelho, Antônio Sá da Silva (ed.), Teoria do Direito. Direito interrogado hoje ¿ o Jurisprudencialismo:uma resposta possivel? Estudos em homenagem ao Senhor Doutor Antonio Castanheira Neves, Salvador: Juspodium, pp. 109-174. Castanheira Neves, A. (2003). A crise actual da filosofia do direito no contexto da crise global da filosofia. Tópicos para a possibilidade de uma reflexiva reabilitação, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora.