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The text presents an attempt to understand, within the framework of Hannah Arendt's thought, her refusal to be called a philosopher, and relates this circumstance to her experiences in Germany during Nazism and her intention to reflect on politics in a context in which tradicional responses are no longer able to provide guidance. Taking into account the relationship, identified by Arendt, between the absence of thought and evil, it investigates whether the faculty of judgment, released by thought, can be affected not only by thoughtlessness, but by the radicalization of the very conditions of thinking.

Given that the material conditional can be true in three different situations, an empirical datum can confirm different conditionals. In fact, the same datum can confirm even conditionals that appear to be in contradiction with each other. By means of an example presented by Khemlani, Byrne, and Johnson-Laird, this issue is addressed below. To do that, the present paper resorts to the concept of reduction sentence offered by Carnap. The conclusions refer to the idea that, if this last concept is assumed, the problems of the confirmation of the conditional seem to disappear. This is, at least, as far as the example dealt with here is concerned.

In her political theory, especially in her work On Revolution, Hannah Arendt not only analyzed and discussed the sense and meaning of revolutions (especially French and American) and criticized the functioning of representative democracy based on the system of political parties, but also highlighted councils as propitious spaces where men can act through action and discourse , in the presence of their peers and to occupy together the political life of their country. In this article, the main objective is to analyze the birth of these councils in the light of Hannah Arendt’s political theory, as true spaces of freedom that have always emerged in the course of great revolutions spontaneously and outside the scope of political parties or any leader andthat can provide citizens with conditions for effective political participation.

Baggini and Stangroom (2006) informally introduce the notion of tension in the system of beliefs of a person. I propose a formalization of this notion in the Classical Sentential Logic; it results in measuring the tension of a set of sentences. This formalization uses the notion of semantic information.

The objective of this paper is to pay homage to the memory of Benedito Nunes, considering the ten years of his death. Our intention is to highlight your role in the creation of the Philosophy course at the Federal University of Pará, your commitment to the composition and training of the course's faculty, as well as to its growth and quality. We will also recall some aspects of his performance as a teacher of the course and trainer of the new generations that followed him.

Starting from the reception of Oswald de Andrade's work in Benedito Nunes' critique, the text reflects on the paths of training in philosophy in Brazil, recovering some key texts by the philosopher from Pará. With this, we intend to point out some paths opened by its innovative perspective of bringing together philosophy and poetry within a Brazilian context.

In An Apprentice or the Book of Pleasures Clarice Lispector employs elements of Greek Mythology in the composition of the protagonists of her drama, as we can see in the direct allusion of Odissey XII, where Odysseus escapes the seduction of the siren’s songs by binding himself to the masthead of his ship. In the claretian drama, the search for the self, starting from the other, is the link that both unites, divides, and reverses the Homeric characters, being Loreley the siren who teaches her charms to Ulisses, the teacher of philosophy, who thus turns from seducer to apprentice. To comprehend the poetic-philosophical core of the process of recognition of the consciousness of both characters that surfaces and then is recomposed, I shall revisit the analysis made by Benedito Nunes in both O Drama da Lingaguem and O Dorso do Tigre.  

The Present work has for objective to present some reflections regarding thematic in question, taking for base the inaugural lesson presented by the professor Benedict Nunes in April of 1999, involving a phase daily pay-college student and the existence of a local intelegentsia in the Amazônia, inspired for the regionalism, and that it, influenced of decisive form the creation of the Federal Univrsity of Pará.

The article discusses how the concepts of symbolic and Law appear in the construction of Judith Butler's theory of gender. It explains how the author uses the concept of prohibition as a framework for analysis, so that an inflection between her thinking and psychoanalysis is produced. In addition, it analyzes how the articulation between the psychic and power is carried out in Butler, when she establishes a dialogue with Michel Foucault. Thus, based on a proposition that mixes aspects of the psyche with dynamics of the functioning of power, Butler performs a re-reading of traditional Lacanian theorizing about the symbolic, with the purpose of making visible processes of resistance that allow the reconfiguration of the symbolic and of culture, an undertaking that it can be approximated to that carried out by Deleuze and Guattari, although Butler refuses a theoretical approximation with these authors.

When he needed to leave Brazil due to problems with the military regime, Benedito Nunes arrived in Paris in 1967, a year after the publication of The Order of Things, that is, in the middle of a structuralist wave. The purpose of this article is to show the impact of Foucault's book on Benedito Nunes, whose immediate result was the publication, in 1968, of the first review of the book published in Brazil. Furthermore, I intend not only to reconstitute the most important arguments of this reading but also, at the same time, to understand its importance and its originality, in contrast to Roberto Machado's interpretation. The backdrop is the Brazil of the military dictatorship and the memories of the young student of Benedito Nunes, author of this article  

Our objective with this article is to show that the relationship between philosophy and literary criticism, in Benedito Nunes, more than a personal vocation, is the natural tendency to good practices, both philosophical and literary, in a broad sense. And this perspective is consolidated in modern thought thanks to Kant and his criticisms, especially his Kritik der Urteilskraft, work that changes the course of the history of philosophy by shifting its center from science to aesthetics.

This article deals with the relationship of Eric Weil's political thought with Hegel's Philosophy of Law, based on two texts by Eric Weil: “Hegel and the Concept of Revolution” and “The Philosophy of Law and the Hegelian’s Philosophy of History”, translated and published in Brazil in a volume entitled Hegel e Nós. The article analyzes these two texts. The first shows how the Hegelian concept of revolution focuses more on the revolutionary situation - its problematic - than on revolution as an event. This allows us to apprehend fundamental distinctions in Éric Weil, such as the difference between revolt and revolution and as two modalities of revolution: one based on a mass movement, the other that a responsible government must implement to deal with the necessary changes before they are imposed by a violent revolt. The second text places the Philosophy of Law in the Hegelian theory of history. This allows us to differentiate between Hegel's theoretical attitude, from which an essentially speculative understanding of history proceeds, and Eric Weil's approach, which emphasizes action. From the analysis of two texts and according to the historical context in which Éric Weil develops his own thought, the article offers elements of comparison and differentiation between the Hegelian Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy published by Eric Weil in 1956.

This paper proposes a parallel between Machado de Assis and Machiavelli. Therefore, the paper was divided into four sections. In the first, two possible relationships between Machado de Assis and philosophy are presented: a reading of non-relationship and a reading of relationship. The second part discusses Margutti's interpretation of the relationship between Machado and philosophy. In the third stage, Maia Neto's reading of Machado's fiction is presented. In the fourth section, the parallel between Machado and Machiavelli is built based on the concepts presented in the previous steps. It ends with a discussion of the parallel.

Provoked by Anselm Jappe and Eduardo Subiratis’ criticism of Surrealism, in which these authors suggest an identification of this vanguard movement with the process of bourgeois modernization, the article proposes to show that the social critique of the present and the historical critique of the past are inseparable in André Breton and his Surrealist comrades. To this end, it presents and explains the concepts that are woven into the Surrealist conception, such as desire, imagination, and historical creation.

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Full content of Argumentos Revista de Filosofia (n. 27, v. 1, 2022).

Editorial of Argumentos Revista de Filosofia (v. 27, n. 1, 2022).

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