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This article analyses the way in which we, usually, are not aware of the importance that the mode we look at nature has an influence on our experience of everyday life and on our philosophical and religious position in the universe. This is, however, a fundamental aspect about which the author makes reflections in this study, which debates the intimate connection between the theme of Nature and the issue of Time.

In this article we focus the life and work of Ana Vicente, deceased in April de 2015. Besides referring to her vast literary production we also mention the battles in which this exceptional being –who was designated by the President of the Republic as "a woman of arms" -was involved with so much commitment, such as the defense of the rights of women and the international movement "We are Church". Along the text, attempts are made to demonstrate how, by her personal and religious way of life, the unique figure of Ana Vicente acted as convocation for all those who heard her and "a prophecy in action".

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On December 1, 2015 David Pryce-Jones, a British author, commentator, and senior editor of National Review offered his comments on what is today perceived as the immigration crisis in Europe, under the following headline: "Can the European Nation-State Survive the Current Wave of Mass Migration?" With the same centuries old self-centered perspective European governments seem unable to contemplate this monumental human crisis except from the threat that it may represent for the unmovable center of their citizenship rights in the so-called really civilized nations of the world, their values, economic stability, and moral and cultural standards. This paper departs from a different question: Can current waves of 'migrants' survive in Europe? to expose some of the Western-based ideologies that perceive everybody outside of dominant European ancestry as the "other" and their impact on the nature of global relations, peace, human ethics and responsibility.

This study aims to examine the question of spirituality at the work context of Portuguese organizations. Spirituality is assumed as the way each person, in a personal and intimate way, seeks to make sense of him/herself, of others, of the organization, and of the work itself, in search of happiness and well-being in organizations. To this end, 401 workers participated at this research, of whom 286 have functions of managers and 115 have functions of collaborators, in public and private organizations. They were assessed by the questionnaire "The values and the work", organized in 6 different dimensions (i) the person and the company, (ii) human relations at work, (iii) career, (iv) internal communications, (v) values, and (vi) spirituality. The obtained results allowed to confirm that these dimensions are valued by workers in general, and reflect the Christian sense in the working life, that is, they clarify the "presence of God" and of Christian values in the organizational practices. These results are  consistent with those obtained in previous studies at an international and national levels, and justify the investment of organizations in the field of spirituality, in so far as it constitutes an important factor in aspects such as the well-being, satisfaction, sense of success and progress, productivity, performance, and profit of people and organizations.

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The matrix of all Hellenic culture is the intuition of the absolute difference between the existence of something and its contradiction, for which there are no proper words. Hesiodic myth, as well as the narratives of Homer and the great dramatic authors, portray the first conception of this relation, depicted in many detailed forms. Plato, following Socrates’ teachings, proposes Goodness as that absolute difference, asthe absolute ontological positivity that produces/creates being.

Ao ler a cronística luso-brasileira, ficamos com uma visão do ideário da época e da noção de superioridade que prevalecia entre os colonizadores. Neste artigo, discorre-se sobre o que podemos aprender com a leitura das obras de Emmanuel Lévinas e com a sua teoria da alteridade, a propósito da construção do conhecimento, da aquisição de competência cultural e da aplicação da sua conceptualização do "Outro" à educação, ao ensino de línguas, tanto maternas como estrangeiras, e à acção social. Apresentam-se também perspectivas e reflexões que, de uma forma problematizadora, se referem às críticas pós-colonialistas inerentes à visão levinasiana do "Outro"

As Humberto Lopes once wrote, "(...) as far as cultural identities are concerned, frontiers can hardly said to be unsurpassable obstacles." (2003: 21; my translation) This idea is, I believe, a fruitful one when applied to Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), whose débutas a novelist we commemorated in 2014; if only because, as David Daiches put it, "Scott was two men: (...) both the prudent Briton and the passionate Scot." (1968: 36). We can only speculate on how he would balance today, were he alive, these two halves of his political citizenship and view, or react to, the long-standing claims for independence espoused and voiced by the Scottish National Party; claims tested in the September 2014referendum, two hundred years since the publication of Waverley (1814). Hardly a coincidence, surely; but that lies beyond the scope and purpose of the present paper. I will simply seek to show how social, political and cultural messages may have filtered into Ivanhoe(1819), Scott’s first published historical novel on the Middle Ages and on a specifically English theme.

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