Ocultação, desocultação e invenção em Bergson

The Socratic Bergson

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 ...

Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson

This article analyses the work of the twentieth-century late modernist Samuel Beckett, in light of the turn-of-the-century anti-rationalist Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and the eighteenth-century neoclassicist Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). What unites these three very different thinkers is a concern over habitual, automatic and involuntary behavior, which in all three cases has a distinctly neurolog...

Exercício, obesidade e asma em crianças e adolescentes

Overweight has become increasingly common in children around the world. Unfortunately, Brazil is no exception. Additionally, due to increased access to many modern conveniences, the physical activity levels in this age group have declined. Besides metabolic sequelae, obesity combined with a sedentary activity level can also negatively affect multiple organ systems throughout the body. Data are ...

Elan vital chez Bergson

La Philosphie de Bergson vise la vie spirituelle, le spiritualisme, la joie, l’appétit et le changement perpétuel de la réalité. En conséquence las trios notions de la durée, de la mémoire et de l’élan vital constituent la réalité de la vie dans son cheminement et dans son progrès. L’ensemble de ces notions fondamentales décèle la contenu de la vie, et dégage la réalité de ses rigidités de l’au...