Fernandes, P., “A educação cívica em Portugal numa encruzilhada: que educação política em tempos de polarização?” In I. Gregório (coord.), A Educação Cívica e Política em Portugal. Contributos e reflexões sobre fundamentos, oportunidades e desafios, Alêtheia Editores (2023)

Fernandes, P., “A educação cívica em Portugal numa encruzilhada: que educação política em tempos de polarização?” In I. Gregório (coord.), A Educação Cívica e Política em Portugal. Contributos e reflexões sobre fundamentos, oportunidades e desafios, Alêtheia Editores (2023)

Patrícia Fernandes A educação cívica e política pode desempenhar um papel relevante no quotidiano de um regime democrático, onde o processo através do qual as decisões políticas são tomadas constitui um complexo emaranhado de regras, procedimentos, relações entre inúmeras instituições e um conjunto de outros detalhes que podem gerar um sentimento de desorientação a quem o tenta compreender. Reconhecendo a…

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Diss-E N-º 6

Diss-E N-º 6

Master Thesis Author |LARA DE MENDONÇA ANDRÉ| N.º 6 - The relevance of sentience: shaping non-anthropocentric politics This dissertation explores the contributions of political philosophy to the debate about the consideration of nonhuman sentient beings. Firstly, anthropocentrism and speciesism are analyzed as the dominant positions in moral and political philosophy, according to which human interests have priority (if not exclusive…

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Diss-E N.º4

Diss-E N.º4

Master Thesis Author |ASSUCENA MARLENE FERREIRA DE SOUSA | N.º 4 - Marcuse and the ambivalence of technics Herbert Marcuse was one of the most influential political philosophers in the 20th century. After his death, his popularity started decreasing and the philosopher somewhat sank into oblivion. This dissertation intends to investigate the Marcusean contribution to the subject of technics, so…

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Ballacci, G., “Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric: Politics as Transcendence and Contingency”, Palgrave MacMillan (2018)

Ballacci, G., “Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric: Politics as Transcendence and Contingency”, Palgrave MacMillan (2018)

GIUSEPPE BALLACCI This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives. The first part of the study proposes a reassessment of the ancient…

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Toward “Natural Right and History”

Toward “Natural Right and History”

CEPS AUTHOR |JOSÉ A. COLEN| Natural Right and History is widely recognized as Strauss’s most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, and a full transcript of the 1949 Walgreen Lectures show Strauss working toward the ideas he would present in fully matured form in his landmark work. In them, he explores natural right and…

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