Aims
- To encourage critical reflection on political action and decision-making.
- Because of the type of person that the course is aimed at, it will not focus on a particular question; while remaining close to current experiences and situations, it will seek to throw light on the key issues of political life.
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Content and teaching methods
Content
This course outline presents the content without prejudging the plan.
1. Political power (different conceptions, and the nature and basis of political power); the relationship with authority and force; legality-legitimacy; consensus-obedience; power and justice; and deformations and abuse of power.
2. The state and political institutions (various conceptions); the nation and the state; the organisation of political society (the common good and law); limitations of the power of the state; democracy (participation and subsidiarity); the separation of powers; subversion of the state.
3. Sovereignty, and the ambiguity of this idea; absolutism, security and national interest; and towards totalitarianism.
4. International society (the emergence of a globalist world); east-west and north-south cleavages; war and peace; development and sub-development; and imperialism, its forms and instruments.
5. The person and the citizen (individuals, persons and citizens); reciprocity; freedom and equality; alienation of the person; and the manipulative state.
6. Political decision-making (freedom and uncertainty); experimentation and the future; and the role of the law.
7. The church and political society; a critique of civil religion, Caesarpapism and theocracy; universalism; the autonomy of politics; and the prophetic reserve of the church.
8. Political choice (power or freedom) ; the perversions of democracy; and the political project and human finiteness.
Methodology
For each theme, it will be necessary to produce:
a) a historical introduction that will provide an opportunity to talk about the classics of political philosophy;
b) a systematic development on the theme;
c) a case study demonstrating the practical and useful nature of philosophical reflection for the examination of a given substantive problem or situation.
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ROM21
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