Catholic Social Teaching

6 ECTS / Semester / Portuguese
Objectives:
1. To understand religion as a way of inhabiting the world;
2. To identify the anthropological substrates of Christianity;
3. To analyze the main theological references of the Catholic social teaching;
4. To understand the nature and historical dynamic of the Catholic social teaching;
5. To place the big axes of the Catholica social teaching in the site of the social problems of the contemporary world.

Skils and competences:
1. To read methodically specialized texts;
2. To identify in the specialized texts the themes and problems of the Curricular Unit;
3. To relate different ethic reading of social issues;
4. To purpose interpretative ways for the contemporary social problems;
5. To critically integrate the ethical reflection in the contemporary political thought.