Discurso filosófico e existência em Ricoeur: filosofar após Kierkegaard

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: COGNITION AND PICTURE-BASED NARRATIVE DISCOURSE Doença de Alzheimer: cognição e discurso narrativo com apoio em figuras

Rev. CEFAC. 2014 Jul-Ago; 16(4):1168-1176 being affected in at least two cognitive domains1. Among the different types of existing dementias, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent form in the elderly population. The AD diagnosis is currently made on clinical grounds and among its main cognitive features are the difficulties related to memory, language, executive functions and visualspa...

Paracoccidioidomicose em crianças e adolescentes

Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an important systemic mycosis; it is restricted to Latin America, and Brazil is the most affected country. Children and adolescents account for approximately 5 to 10% of all cases with the acute form of the disease, which afflicts the mononuclear phagocytic system, in particular, lymph nodes and abdominal organs. Involvement of bones and joints has been observed ...

Kierkegaard , Socrates and Existential Individuality

The 19 century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was a profoundly religious thinker. He is also regarded as the father of Existentialism, one of the most important philosophical movements of the 20 century. The term ‘existentialist’ is applied to those philosophers, like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, who held that the foundation of all philosophical thought is to be found in the actual,...

The Ethics of Reading: Ingarden, Iser, Ricoeur

Making Sense of Nonsense: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein

The aim of this paper is to make sense of cases of apparent nonsense in the writings of Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. Against commentators such as Cora Diamond and James Conant, we argue that, in the case of Wittgenstein, recognising such a category of nonsense is necessary in order to understand the development of his thought. In the case of Kierkegaard, we argue against the view that the noti...