Jean-Paul Sartre e Michel Foucault: do desencontro humanista à confluência da liberdade (engajamento e cuidado)

Jean-Paul Sartre and the HOT Theory of Consciousness

Rocco J. Gennaro Indiana State University [final version in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2002] Jean-Paul Sartre believed that consciousness entails self-consciousness, or, even more strongly, that consciousness is self-consciousness. As Kathleen Wider puts it in her terrific book The Bodily Nature of Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, “...all consciousness is, by its ...

Jean-Paul Sartre on the Meaning of Life: Objections from an Islamic Viewpoint

Theories of the meaning of life are divided into two categories: nihilistic and anti-nihilistic. The latter is divided, in turn, into the view that life is meaningful and the view that life can be made meaningful. In this paper, we deploy a descriptive-analytic method to discuss Jean-Paul Sartre’s view of nihilism. In his view, God does not exist, the human being is born and dies without a reas...

Faubion MICHEL FOUCAULT POWER

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The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. The four books under review address several of the most compelling issues that have arisen following the democratic transitions of the 1980s and 1990s in Latin American counties with indigenous populations. The main concerns shared by the authors, all anthropologists, are indig...

Fisiologia do ovário e da fecundação

Os ovários, tal como os testículos, são glândulas endócrinas cuja função não se limita à secreção de hormonas para a circulação sistémica. O ovário é o órgão onde se produzem as células germinais femininas, assegurando a sua maturação e libertação a intervalos regulares, durante a idade reprodutiva da mulher, de um gâmeta capaz de ser fecundado. As duas funções fisiológicas básicas associadas a...