Sumários

Hobbes’ s absolutism.

20 Outubro 2023, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Hobbes’ s absolutism.

Exploration of key concepts  of “On Commonwealth” Leviathan: the relevance of the covenant as the required premise for the foundation of society; the principle of humankind's responsibility for the organisation of their comunities, and the co-responsibility amongst their members.
The advantages and problems of the monarchical systems. The rights of the mobarch.


Note: In the next class we will welcome Prof.Sybill Erlle.

Absolutism

18 Outubro 2023, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Absolutism as a çrevailing ideology and/or practice in several seventeenth-century European kingdoms.

The French model with Louis XIII and Louis XIV with their respective counsillors, Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarino.

Cromwell's authoritarian rule and its cinsequences.

Hobbes’ s political theory. Approach of “On Commonwealth” Leviathan.

Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate.

13 Outubro 2023, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate. 

The rise  to power of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England.

The impact of Puritanism on English way of living. The decelopment of mercantilist economy: the Navigation Acts.

The war with Ireland and its consequences.

Analysis of Cromwell’s speeches.

The first Stuart's rule

11 Outubro 2023, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

From the centralisation of the royal power to absolutism:

The first Stuarts and the Civil War. 
The rise of parliamentatism and the divide of factions.  Cavaliers and Roundheads,  their rezpective defining factors and goals.

Oliver Cromwell as revolutionary leader and ruler.

Reading: Oliver Cromwell's 1653 speech.

Reading Thomas More’s Utopia

6 Outubro 2023, 12:30 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

Continuation of the analysis of Book II of Utopia:


The meaning and relevance of religious ecumenism and belief in transcendency.

The of the two narrators: More as a persona literaria and Raphael Hythloday.

Utopia's ambiguity and rethorical exercise - serio ludum -  as a literary device to speculate about alternative societies.