Sumários

Final remarks

10 Janeiro 2025, 12:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Final remarks on the Enlightenment period and Modernity.

The ongoing industrial revolution in England and its social and economic consequences. ~
The urban way of living.


The gender question

8 Janeiro 2025, 12:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Some remarks on the gender question.

The impact of the revolutionary mindset on women. The emphasis on the right to education.
The controbution of Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Catherine Macaulay's Letters on Education.
Olympe de Gouges' Declaration of the Rights of Women as the first feminin.political vindication.


Test

20 Dezembro 2024, 12:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Written test.


Revisions

18 Dezembro 2024, 12:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Preparation for the written test to be held on the 20th.


Main topics: Enlightenment definition and essential vectors.stemological revolution.
The epjstemological revolution: main philosophical schools of thought and the scientific advancments; the dissemi ation of knowledge and its impact on society.
The American Revoultion - ideological mindset and historical causes.
The French Revolution: ideological principles; the social and political impact across Ehrope.


Paine's Rights of Man

13 Dezembro 2024, 12:30 Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Reading of excerpts of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man.

The notion of natural rights and civil rights as  the basis of civil society.

The relevance of the first explicit constitutions: The American and the French Revolution and the notion of citizenship.