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85Intergenerational Justice TodayPhilosophy Compass 13 (3). 2018.A theory of intergenerational justice consists in the study of the moral and political status of the relations between present and past or future people, more specifically, of the obligations and entitlements they can potentially generate. The challenges that justify talking about responsibilities between generations are myriad. And the disputes they prompt can focus on the past just as much as on the present, even though the fact that the human species has reached a state of technological progr…Read more
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42Spinoza on JusticeEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (1): 127-143. 2016.Spinoza studies have paid little attention to the concept of justice for centuries. However, he refers to it quite often in different contexts, especially in his mature texts. More specifically, he defines it as synonymous with suum cuique tribuere, even though he fails to provide a reasonable account of how this traditional legal expression fits into his philosophical system. This article shows that there is a relevant philosophical dimension in Spinoza’s treatment of the suum cuique that emerg…Read more
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15An Inquiry into a Normative Concept of Legal EfficacyRatio Juris 29 (4): 460-477. 2016.This essay argues that legal efficacy understood as existent binding force and as dominance of a system of coercion vis-à-vis competing systems is not strictly a matter of fact, but involves what can be termed justified normativity in a factual context. The argument is divided into four sections. The first three sections describe different dimensions of a normative concept of legal efficacy applied to legal systems: efficacy as persuasiveness, as indirect communication, and as constitutive obedi…Read more
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Começo e progressão expositiva na Filosofia de Spinoza: Um encontro com HegelKalagatos 1 (2). 2004.
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29Aquinas’s lex iniusta non est lex: a Test of Legal ValidityArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 100 (3): 366-378. 2014.Legal positivism understands natural law as performing classifying connections between morality and law as tests of legal validity: if a norm with some pretence to legality contradicts a moral good, it cannot be called a legal norm. The new natural law school, however, claims that natural law develops qualifying connections between morality and law: tests of legal validity are performed by non-moral criteria such as due enactment or efficacy, and morality determines not what the law is, but rath…Read more
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13Spinoza: Basic Concepts (edited book)Imprint Academic. 2015.Spinoza is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. He has had a deep and enduring influence on a wide range of philosophical subjects, and his work is encountered by all serious students of Western philosophy. His _Ethics_ is one of the seminal works of metaphysical, moral, religious and political thought; his _Theological-Political Treatise_ inaugurated a novel method of biblical exegesis; and both his political works developed the pre-eminence of democracy above all other…Read more
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7Grotius's Interdisciplinarity Between Law And Political PhilosophyPhilosophical Frontiers: A Journal of Emerging Thought 4 (2). 2009.
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59Responsibility and Justice in Aristotle’s Non-Voluntary and Mixed ActionsJournal of Ancient Philosophy 7 (2): 100. 2013.
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1Grotius na interdisciplinaridade moderna entre o dereito e a filosofia políticaPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 33 95-118. 2009.
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34Ayn Rand Shrugged: The Gap Between Ethical Egoism and Global CapitalismJournal of Ayn Rand Studies 12 (1): 77-116. 2012.There is a gap between Rand 'sethical egoism and today's global capitalism on at least six points. Since her version of " capitalism : the unknown ideal" addresses none of these points, it cannot resemble the reality of today's global capitalism. The connection between Objectivist ethics and politics is preserved by a possible change in her minarchical political philosophy. This will mean that there is no necessary connection between ethical egoism and minarchism or between ethical egoism and mi…Read more
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69A autonomia do direito como imanência interdisciplinar: reflexões a partir da querela entre Gustav Hugo e HegelVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 56 (3): 26-37. 2011.In the debate between the Historische Rechtschule (Hugo and Savigny) and Hegel about who is legitimately entitled to develop legal theory, the former considered philosophy of law to be inherent to systematic science of law, whereas the latter considered the concept of Law in a necessary transdisciplinary dialectic – there would then be a difference between ‘the jurists’ philosophy of law’ and ‘the philosophers’ philosophy of law’. I will demonstrate that such distinction cannot stand. A ‘jurists…Read more
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24Hasana Sharp. Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, pp. xii + 242, £ 21.38 . ISBN: 978-0-226-75074-3Journal of Value Inquiry 46 (4): 481-484. 2012.
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45Spinoza's revolutions in natural lawPalgrave-Macmillan. 2012.The book forms a balanced structure in which the three conceptual pillars of Spinoza's natural law theory (individuality, natural laws, and power) are first analyzed from the viewpoint of his ontology and then from the viewpoint of his ...
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202The individuality of the state in Spinoza's political philosophyArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 92 (1): 1-38. 2010.The place of the State in Spinoza's ontology has emerged in scholarly literature as one of the most complex issues involving Spinoza's political thought. At issue is whether Spinoza's State is an actual individual with its own conatus . Some consider it a completely real individual, others say that its individuality can only be metaphoric, whilst others point out the conceptual insufficiency of this polarity for explaining the ontological status of political aggregates and try to overcome it thr…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |