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Lecturer(s)
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Lacca Emanuele, M.A. Ph.D.
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Course content
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- Week 1-2: Human dignity: its history and meaning - Week 3-4: Human rights: its history and meaning - Week 5-6: Dignity and rights as foundation of individual and social human development - Week 7-8: Dignity as human self-determination - Week 9-10: Rights beyond laws: at the roots of human behaviours - Week 11-12: Evaluation of dignity and rights in different social contexts - Week 13: Recap and analysis of the main questions arisen from the course
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The course aims to investigate the main historical and theoretical lines that mark the critical development of dignity and human rights. The course will be structured in three parts. In the first one, the concepts of dignity and human rights will be analyzed from a historical-critical point of view, their genesis and the main theoretical lines that arose within the different intellectual communities will be investigated. The second part of the course will consider some figures who constituted the fundamental junctures in the development of dignity and human rights between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. These figures can be considered foundational to contemporary conceptions of the two concepts. The third part will examine some works by intellectuals of the contemporary age who were decisive for the affirmation of the concepts of dignity and human rights as freedom of self-determination and as the possibility of exercising this freedom on a universal level, respectively. To achieve the course goals, the structure of the learning blocks is organized as follows: - Week 1-2: Human dignity: its history and meaning - Week 3-4: Human rights: its history and meaning - Week 5-6: Dignity and rights as foundation of individual and social human development - Week 7-8: Dignity as human self-determination - Week 9-10: Rights beyond laws: at the roots of human behaviours - Week 11-12: Evaluation of dignity and rights in different social contexts - Week 13: Recap and analysis of the main questions arisen from the course The methodology of teaching is the classical 'in-class' structure. The teacher will be in charge of presenting the topics to the students, together with some core questions that the students are able to discuss them in class. Then, the teacher will guide the class to the most relevant answers about the selected topics. Those who, for valid reasons, are not able to participate in presence, will be able to attend the class through remote tools (e.g. MSTeams, Zoom, GMeet,). To reach the maximum of the goals, the compulsory literature will be given to the students at the beginning of the course and will be analyzed interactively through technological tools such as smartboards. The students will have two options to finish the course. Both options will take into account the selected bibliography of the syllabus and assigned for class-study and self-study. Essay. The students will prepare an essay of 8-10 pages + bibliography (Times New Roman 12, TNR 10 for footnotes, 1.5 line spacing), to be delivered in one of the examination terms that will be announced in IS STAG system at proper time. Test. The students will perform a written test (4 open questions, max. 25 lines per question, max. 2 hours) at the faculty. The test terms will be announced in IS STAG system at proper time. After the termination of the course, it will be possible to organize a colloqium to speak about the essay/test.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination, Essay, Colloquium
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Recommended literature
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Betty Reardon. Educating for Human Dignity. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1995. ISBN 9780812215243.
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The Pluriverse of Human Rights. Routledge, New York, 2021. ISBN 9781032012216.
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Gehrig, Rainer Bernard; Opatrný, Michal,; Birher, Nándor,; Baumann, Klaus-Dieter. Spirituality, ethics and social work. 1st edition. Freiburg : FreiDoc plus, 2021. ISBN 978-3-928969-86-4.
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Mahmoudi, Hoda,; Penn, Michael L. Interdisciplinary perspectives on human dignity and human rights. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019. ISBN 9781789738230.
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Matthias Lutz-Bachmann. Human Dignity: Perspectives from a Critical Theory of Human Rights. Routledge, New York, 2018. ISBN 9781315468297.
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Rowan Cruft. Philosophical Foundation of Human Rights. OUP, Oxford-New York, 2015. ISBN 9780199688623.
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