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7A Mente, a Religião e a Ciência: actas do Colóquio (edited book)Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa. 2003.
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15Religion and violence: an ambivalent relationshipConjectura: Filosofia E Educação 26 021047. 2021.In this paper, we sustain the thesis that there is a violent aspect in the religious attitude. However, it is also true – as paradoxical as it might sound – that religion has been the privileged field to limit all kinds of violence in human societies. Keywords: Religion. Violence. Sacrifice. Frazer. Girard. Eliade.
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14The Feeling of What Happens and Animal MindsPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (31): 7-17. 2008.In this paper, I intend to dispute Marc Hauser’s thesis, sustained in Wild Minds. What Animals Really Think, that we must abandon the question of whether animals have a feeling of themselves, replacing it for an objective and scientific analysis capable of disclosing the extraordinary similitude between different mental procedures animals undergo when they face common challenges.
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9A Religião e a Experiência do DivinoPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 9 (17-18): 49-59. 2001.The goal of this paper is to distinguish between two main concepts in Philosophy of Religion: the religious human experience and the notion of God. It argues that religion must be understood as a symbolic and cultural construction while the concept of the divine means the experience of the limits of human thought. Sometimes, throughout human history, these two experience meet but they are not conceptually the same.
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15Identidade PessoalPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (12): 75-88. 1998.This paper has the purpose of showing the way the concept of narrative identity, suggested by Ricoeur, enables us to re-evaluate the paradoxes resulting from the two classic criteria used to solve the problem of personal identity.
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12Thomas Manne a Montanha MágicaPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 5 (9): 123-131. 1997.In this article, we analyse the symbolic meaning of the Thomas Mann's novel, The Magic Mountain. We try to see the scope of the interpretations that consider the metaphors of death, time and culture as the main subject of the novel. Finally, we sustain the idea that Thomas Mann wants to tell us that beauty and perfection are the reverse of death and suffering.
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11Kafka e as Metamorfoses da LeíPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (7): 125-139. 1996.This essay examines the conflict of interpretations arisen by Kafka’s work, specially by his narrative «The Metamorphosis». It analyses the range and limits of the psychological, sociological, theological and existentialist interpretation of Kafka.
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3Os Usos da FilosofiaPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 3 (6): 35-42. 1995.On this article we sustain the need to articulate the teaching of Philosophy with an heuristic investigation which queries hypothesis, models and mental experiences about concepts not yet completly shaped, together with sciences and arts.
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17Schelling, “Discurso Sobre as Artes Plásticas”Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (55-56): 129-163. 2020.
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11Cosmogonia. Estudo de Mitologia ComparadaPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (53): 9-19. 2019.This paper analyses which are the great cultural cosmogonic models of creation in mythology; so it will be an essay of comparative mythology about the origin of the world, a study marked by the concern to detect philosophical principles that guide this area of thought.
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10Paulo Borges, Meditação, Liberdade Silenciosa. Da Mindfulness ao Despertar da Consciência (review)Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (51): 165-173. 2018.
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17O que é a Arte?Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (50): 139-149. 2017.
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14A Luz Branca da NevePhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (46): 31-38. 2015.This essay aims to examine how Thomas Mann reinterprets, in the novel “The Magic Mountain”, Nietzsche’s view of the world expressed in “The Birth of Tragedy”. The Olympic world becomes in the novel of Mann, a sanatorium where the death drive controls everything. Several interpretations for this ironic reading of the magic mountain symbol are offered, in particular the idea that death must not hypnotise us, a major theme of “Snow scene” of the novel.
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14Questões de Teodiceia na Cultura OcidentalPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (27): 35-52. 2006.This paper examines the philosophical conflict arisen by theodicy in western culture. After the exposition of Simon Blackburn and Richard Swinbume’s contentions views, we sustain that the only credible solution to the problem entails a new philosophical concept of God based on a non-anthropocentric vision of reality.
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2Ricoeur e a Expressão Simbólica do SentidoPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 2 (3): 147-154. 1994.
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Eros e Nostalgia. Ensaio sobre FreudPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 2 (3): 7-18. 1994.This article devellops the following argument: although desire is in Freud's view regressive, it splits itself in two directions — the principle of constance associated with death instincts and the principle of pleasure, bound to the vital instincts of Eros. Constancy and pleasure that are at first linked together are afterwards separated by Freud.
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2Clément Rosset, Principes de Sagesse et de Folie (review)Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 1 (1): 146-148. 1993.
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17Philistine Acts of Violence. The Criminal Destruction of Art and Science Monuments in Mishima’s and Conrad’s NovelsPhilosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 3 (1). 2019.This paper aims to analyse how literary fiction deals with two real cases of philistine violence on cultural objects, one artistic and the other scientific. In this way, we will analyse Mishima's novel, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, which narrates the destruction of one of the “jewels of Kyoto,” as well as Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, which novelised the attack against the meridian of Greenwich. In both cases, we are confronted with the same attitude, namely, the insane resentment agai…Read more
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52Susanne K. Langer and the Definition of ArtEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 3 (1): 92-103. 2019.This essay aims to analyze the conception of a work of art in the thought of Susanne K. Langer. The author offers us a definition of art, grounded on the idea that art is the “creation of symbolic forms of human feeling”. This thesis is, in turn, constructed from a robust theory of the symbolic function of the human mind.
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Razão e Liberdade. Homenagem a Manuel José do Carmo Ferreira (edited book)Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa. 2010.
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In memoriam joão Paulo da Cruz mendesPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 42. 2013.
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