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In the digital world, philosophy seems to blur and overlap without allowing its relation to different scientific and humanistic knowledge to emerge. Nevertheless, large technology companies such as Microsoft, IBM or Google have incorporated philosophers into their staff in order to respond to potential ethical problems, for example, regarding Artificial Intelligence. At the same time, global political turmoil also requires reflections given by sociologists who are very familiar with the main philosophers, the concept of State, social constitution, justice or peace. 

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The syllabus for this program has been designed to offer the most advanced knowledge on Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Anthropology over 12 modules. For a much more effective learning experience, students will be able to use video summaries and interactive activities to develop specific skills and abilities in each subject. The syllabus is also complemented by essential readings, which include recent or specific articles on different topics.

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Module 1. General Ethics

1.1. Introduction

1.1.1. Ordinary Experience as a Starting Point
1.1.2. Definition of Ethics: Material and Formal Object and Normative Scope
1.1.3. Distinction and Relation to Other Human Sciences
1.1.4. Metaphysical Principles in Ethics: Principle of Purpose and Freedom

1.2. Historical View

1.2.1. Historical Overview
1.2.2. Different Philosophical Foundations of Morals: Empiricist, Phenomenological, Transcendental, Philosophy of Being
1.2.3. Main Approaches to Contemporary Ethical Debate

1.3. Human Goodness

1.3.1. The Ultimate Purpose and Happiness: Purpose in Fact and Purpose in Law; Purpose as a Criterion of Morality; the Concept of Happiness and Beatitude in Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas; the Insufficiency of Ethics of Duty; Criticism of the Ultimate Purpose as Pleasure; Criticism of the Utilitarian Ultimate Purpose
1.3.2. First Ethical Principle: Doing Good and Avoiding Evil: Ontological Good and Moral Good
1.3.3. Value: Definition and Essential Aspects: Classification of Values. The Essence of Moral Values

1.4. The Moral Subject: Elements of Human Behavior

1.4.1. Inclinations, Tendencies and Passions
1.4.2. Practical Reason and its Directive Role
1.4.3. The Will as Intellectual Appetite
1.4.4. Habits or Moral Virtues: Concept, Nature, Classification
1.4.5. Freedom: Coercion, Choice, Adherence to Good: The Full Realization of Freedom

1.5. Moral Law 

1.5.1. Right Reason as a Proximate Moral Rule
1.5.2. Natural Moral Law and Eternal Law: Knowledge and Features of Natural Moral Law. Autonomy or Heteronomy of Natural Moral Law. Natural Moral Law and Right Reason: First Practical Principles and Precepts of Natural Moral Law
1.5.3. Civil Law: Meaning, Definition and Purpose

1.6. Moral Conscience

1.6.1. Definition
1.6.2. Next Standard of Personal Morality
1.6.3. Modalities or Types of Moral Conscience

Module 2. Special Ethics

2.1. Introduction

2.1.1. Personal Ethics and Social Ethics
2.1.2. Objective Criteria in the Special Problems of Ethics

2.2. Friendship Communities

2.2.1. The Family
2.2.2. Life as a Couple and the Value of Sexuality 
2.2.3. Conjugal Love
2.2.4. The Marriage-Institution, Perfection of Conjugal Love 
2.2.5. The Good of Procreation and Education as a Parental Responsibility 

2.3. Bioethical and Related Problems

2.3.1. Birth Control
2.3.2. Abortion
2.3.3. Artificial Insemination
2.3.4. Homosexual Unions 

2.4. Work: Personal and Social Dimension

2.4.1. Professional Work
2.4.2. Work and Justice
2.4.3. Business Ethics 
2.4.4. Technical Market and Globalization

2.5. Political Society

2.5.1. Nature and Historical Forms of Political Society
2.5.2. Origin and Development of the State 
2.5.3. Political Justice
2.5.4. Secular State and Cultural and Religious Belonging
2.5.5. Relationship of the State with the Churches

Module 3. Political Philosophy

3.1. What Is Political Philosophy?

3.1.1. The Lesson from the Classics
3.1.2. The Great Topics in Political Philosophy
3.1.3. Stages in Political Philosophy

3.2. Ancient Political Philosophy

3.2.1. The Republic as Plato’s Political Ideal
3.2.2. Aristotle's Politics

3.3. Medieval Political Philosophy

3.3.1. St. Augustine and the City of God
3.3.2. The Theological-Political Disputes of the Middle Ages and the Thomist Synthesis

3.4. Machiavelli and the Birth of Modern Political Thought

3.4.1. Machiavelli's Theory of Forms of Government
3.4.2. Machiavelli's Political Realism

3.5. Modern Political Philosophy

3.5.1. Hobbes and Modern Naturalism
3.5.2. Locke and the Liberal Formation of Modern Naturalism
3.5.3. Rousseau and the Critique of Modern Political Philosophy

Module 4. Philosophy of Law

4.1. Introduction

4.1.1. The Nature of Legal Activity
4.1.2. Common Legal Knowledge
4.1.3. Technical Legal Knowledge
4.1.4. Division of Law
4.1.5. Legal Methodology
4.1.6. Relation of Law with Other Forms of Knowledge

4.2. Main Points in Legal Knowledge

4.2.1. Fairness in the Area of Commutative Law
4.2.2. Fairness in the Distributive Sphere
4.2.3. Formality

4.3. The History of Law

4.3.1. The Ius in Archaic Rome
4.3.2. The Binomial Ius Civile and Ancient Law
4.3.3. The Ius in the Christianized Greek East
4.3.4. The Ius in the Christianized Latin West
4.3.5. The Protestant Rupture
4.3.6. The New Revolutionary Order

4.4. Law and Theology

4.4.1. Ancient Ius as a Pagan Theologia Civilis
4.4.2. The Jurist and the Staretz
4.4.3. Restitution and Penance
4.4.4. Justice and Mercy

Module 5. Seminar on Bioethical Problems

5.1. What is Bioethics? 

5.1.1. Brief History 
5.1.2. The Concept of Bioethics 

5.1.2.1. Definition, Method and Approach in Bioethics 

5.1.3. Branches in Bioethics 

5.1.5.1. The Biomedical Sector 
5.1.5.2. The Biotechnological Sector 
5.1.5.3. The Extra-Human Sector 

5.2. Main Current Trends in Bioethics and Relevant Bioethic Principles 

5.2.1. Current Trends in Bioethics 

5.2.1.1. Principlism 

5.2.1.1.1. Prima Facie Principles (Beauchamp and Childress) 
5.2.1.1.2. Diego García’s Moderate Principlism 

5.2.1.2. Utilitarianism and Functionalism 
5.2.1.3. Contractualism 
5.2.1.4. Ethics of Minimum 
5.2.1.5. Liberal Trend 
5.2.1.6. Ethics of Care 
5.2.1.7. Narrative Ethics 
5.2.1.8. Bioethical Casuistry 
5.2.1.9. Personalism with an Ontological Foundation 

5.2.2. Relevant Moral Principles 

5.2.2.1. The Lesser Evil 
5.2.2.2. The Principle of Double Effect or Indirect Voluntariness 
5.2.2.5. The Slippery Slope Effect 
5.2.2.4. Technological Imperative and Environmental Ethics 

5.3. Different Deliberative Methodologies to Address Bioethical Problems 

5.3.1. Case Analysis 
5.3.2. Analysis Methods for Decision-Making 

5.3.2.1. The Principlist Method 
5.3.2.2. Jonsen's Method of Case Analysis in Clinical Ethics 
5.3.2.3. Diego García’s Decision-Making 
5.3.2.4. Thomasma’s Decision-Making 
5.3.2.5. Galveston’s Procedure

Module 6. Seminar on Contemporary Political Problems

6.1. The Artificial Construction of Modern Nations

6.1.1. The Traditional Community

6.1.1.1. Archetypal Life
6.1.1.2. Cyclic and Spiral Notions of History
6.1.1.3. Forality and Estates

6.1.2. The Ruptures that Lead to Nationalism

6.1.2.1. Destructive Ideologies in Traditional Archetypes
6.1.2.2. The Linear Notion of History
6.1.2.3. Egalitarianism

6.1.3. The Artificial Construction of Revolutionary Nations

6.1.3.1. Social Fabric Trauma as a Reordering Technique
6.1.3.2. The Constitution as a Founding Document
6.1.3.3. The New State Calendar
6.1.3.4. National Mythology and Propaganda

6.2. Constitutionalism, Constitutive or Disintegrating of the Body Politic?

6.2.1. The Nominalist Roots of Philosophical Contractualism
6.2.2. Legal Constitutionalism as a Consequence of Contractualism
6.2.3. Anglo-American Constitutionalism
6.2.4. Spanish-American Constitutionalism

6.3. Geopolitics and Multipolar World

6.3.1. The International Westphalian Order
6.3.2. Ideology and Geopolitics
6.3.3. The Bipolar Order of the Cold War
6.3.4. The Post-Soviet Unipolar Order
6.3.5. The Gestation of the Multipolar World

Module 7. Philosophy and the Media

7.1. Theory of Knowledge and Communicative Processes 

7.1.1. Link Between Thought and Language 
7.1.2. Theory of Knowledge for Communicative Processes 
7.1.3. The Relation of Human Beings with the World 
7.1.4. Culture 

7.2. History and Reflection on the Media 

7.2.1. Difference Between Information and Communication 
7.2.2. From Gutenberg to the Internet 
7.2.3. Positions Regarding New Technologies 
7.2.4. Information Security and Transparency 

7.3. Effects and Consequences of Media Use 

7.3.1. Typology of Media Effects 
7.3.2. Media Content Analysis 
7.3.3. Theories of Media Effects 

7.4. Positions in Communication Theories 

7.4.1. Communication Currents and Traditions in North America 
7.4.2. Communication Currents and Traditions in Europe 
7.4.3. Communication Currents and Traditions in Latin America

Module 8. Social and Political Philosophy

8.1. Examples of Philosophical Reflections on Society and Politics 

8.1.1. Ancient and Medieval Philosophers 
8.1.2. Modern and Contemporary Philosophers 

8.2. Principles of Social and Political Order 

8.2.1. Human Person and Law: Person and Freedom. Marriage. Family 
8.2.2. Law and Legality: Solidarity. Subsidiarity. Common Good. Society 
8.2.3. Economics and Development: Intermediate Bodies. Social Participation. Work 

8.3. The State and Social Constitution 

8.3.1. Nature and Constitution of the State: Definition. Law. Authority. Power. Territory. Nation and Homeland. Autonomy. Sovereignty 
8.3.2. Bodies, Limits and Functions of the State: Division of Power. Legitimacy and Legality. International Community 
8.3.3. Forms of Government: Democracy and Other Forms of Political Organization. Autonomy. Sovereignty 

8.4. Justice and Peace 

8.4.1. Poverty, Development and Relationships of Justice 
8.4.2. Promoting Peace and International Community: Global Entities 
8.4.3. War and Conditions for Peace: Legitimate Defence and Community 

Module 9. Philosophy of Culture

9.1. Concept of Culture

9.1.1. Culture in the Classical Humanist Sense
9.1.2. Culture in the Modern Anthropological Sense
9.1.3. Fundamental Constitutive Elements of Culture
9.1.4. Toward a Strictly Philosophical Conception of Culture
9.1.5. Culture Between Tradition and Novelty
9.1.6. Human Universality and Cultural Originality

9.2. The Person as a Cultural Being

9.2.1. The Historical Formation of the Concept of the Person
9.2.2. Formation of the Person and Cultural Integration
9.2.3. Culture at the Service of the Person

9.3. Constitutive Aspects of Human Culture

9.3.1. Language: Primary Human Function and Founding Element of Culture
9.3.2. Social Organization, Political Institution and Educational Institution
9.3.3. Relation to the Environment, Work, Technology and Science
9.3.4. Axiology and Culture
9.3.5. History and Culture
9.3.6. Religion and Culture

Module 10. Philosophical Anthropology I

10.1. Introduction 

10.1.1. Human Beings as a Mystery
10.1.2. The Nature and Method of Philosophical Anthropology
10.1.3. Historical Overview of the Conception of Humans

10.2. Human Life

10.2.1. Historical Conceptions of Human Life
10.2.2. The Vital Principle and the Degrees of Life
10.2.3. The Origin of Human Life
10.2.4. Hominization Process: Evolutionary Theories and Assessment
10.2.5. The Principle of Human Life

10.3. The Phenomenology of Human Behavior

10.3.1. Attempts to Explain Human Behavior
10.3.2. Phenomena Specific to Humans
10.3.3. Animal Instinct and Human Instinct

10.4. Human Knowledge

10.4.1. Human Knowledge in General
10.4.2. External Sensations
10.4.3. Internal Perception
10.4.4. Intellectual Knowledge
10.4.5. Self-Conscience
10.4.6. Spirituality of Intellectual Knowledge

10.5. Human Desire

10.5.1. Human Desire in General
10.5.2. Sentient Tendencies
10.5.3. Human Will
10.5.4. Process of Volition
10.5.5. Freedom and Love
10.5.6. Spirituality of the Human Will

10.6. Human Affectivity

10.6.1. Human Affectivity in General
10.6.2. Emotions
10.6.3. Feelings
10.6.4. Pleasure and Pain

Module 11. Philosophical Anthropology II

11.1. Human Unity and Dualism

11.1.1. History of the Problem
11.1.2. Existence, Spirituality and Substantiality of the Soul
11.1.3. The Soul as a Form of Human Matter: Origin of the Personal Soul
11.1.4. Value and Dignity of the Human Body: Sexed Character
11.1.5. Man, Incarnated Spirit

11.2. Humans as Personal Beings

11.2.1. History of the Personal Conception of the Human Being
11.2.2. Nature of the Personal Being
11.2.3. Ontological and Psychological Constitution of the Person
11.2.4. Absolute Value of the Person

11.3. Dimensions of the Personal Being

11.3.1. Bodily Dimensions of the Personal Being
11.3.2. Historicity and Projectivity of the Personal Being
11.3.3. Intersubjectivity and Sociability of the Personal Being
11.3.4. Morality of the Personal Being
11.3.5. Symbolic and Culture-Generating Dimension of the Personal Being
11.3.6. Spirituality of the Personal Being

11.4. Death and Human Transcendence

11.4.1. Human Death
11.4.2. The Ultimate Destiny of the Human Being
11.4.3. Openness to Transcendence and Immortality

Module 12. Philosophical Synthesis

12.1. Metaphysics 

12.1.1. The Nature of Metaphysics 
12.1.2. The Dynamism of Being
12.1.3. Casual Dynamism
12.1.4. The Statics of Being
12.1.5. The Transcendental Properties of Being 
12.1.6. The Classification of Being 
12.1.7. The Participation and Analogy of Being

12.2. Philosophy of Nature 

12.2.1. The Nature of the Treaty
12.2.2. The Intelligibility of Nature 
12.2.3. The Structure of Nature 
12.2.4. The Origin and Meaning of Nature

12.3. Philosophical Anthropology 

12.3.1. The Nature of Philosophical Anthropology 
12.3.2. Human Life 
12.3.3. The Phenomenology of Human Behavior 
12.3.4. Human Knowledge
12.3.5. Human Desire 
12.3.6. Human Affectivity
12.3.7. Human Unity and Dualism
12.3.8. Humans as Personal Beings 
12.3.9. Dimensions of the Personal Being 
12.3.10. Death and Human Transcendence

12.4. Philosophy of Knowledge 

12.4.1. The Nature of Philosophy of Knowledge 
12.4.2. Fundamental Perspectives in Epistemology 
12.4.3. Knowledge in General 
12.4.4. Perceptual Knowledge 
12.4.5. Intellectual Knowledge 
12.4.6. Functions, Acts and Areas of Intellectual Knowledge 
12.4.7. The Truth of Knowledge and Its Discernment

12.5. Ethics

12.5.1. The Nature of Ethics 
12.5.2. Human Goodness 
12.5.3. The Moral Subject 
12.5.4. Moral Law 
12.5.5. Moral Conscience 
12.5.6. Friendship Communities
12.5.7. Matters in Bioethics 
12.5.8. Human Work 
12.5.9. Political Society

12.6. Philosophical Theology 

12.6.1. The Nature of Philosophical Theology 
12.6.2. God as a Problem 
12.6.3. The Existence of God
12.6.4. The Essence of God 
12.6.5. God and the World 
12.6.6. God and Humans

12.7. Synthetic Vision

12.7.1. Thematic and Argumentative Linking of Treaties
12.7.2. Toward a Global Vision and Harmonic Reality

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