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2025-04-01

Editorial

2025-04-01

My Own Life

Jonathan Alvarenga — 2025-04-01

Written in April 1776, My Own Life, translated by us as Minha própria vida, is a concise autobiography written by Hume on the eve of his death. It was posthumously published in March 1777 by Strahan and Cadell, as part of a collection of other writings compiled into a work titled The Life of David Hume, Esq. Written by Himself.

With only 21 paragraphs, Minha própria vida presents us with Hume’s genius, both in terms of content and the clarity and precision of his writing. He does not shy away from criticism, nor does he attempt to soften his own limitations and mood swings, revealing himself as someone who, throughout his life, experienced both successes and challenges, in both his personal and professional spheres.

We hope that, with this translation, we can provide the reader with a fluid reading experience, preserving, as much as possible, the content and style of the original text, transporting them to the 18th-century context that directly influenced the author’s work and life.

Alienação e Desalienação em Frantz Fanon, um Psiquiatra Anticolonial

José Victor Alves da Silva — 2025-04-01

A partir de uma retomada dos textos e trajetória de Frantz Fanon, discuto como o problema da alienação aparece em sua teoria, com destaque para sua obra teórica e prática de caráter psicológico. Nesse intuito, associo seus escritos e as experiências profissionais e militantes de Fanon para articular seu trabalho clínico e intelectual, reconstruindo sua perspectiva ético-política do problema colonial. Minha ênfase está na aposta feita pelo autor no engajamento como contraface do problema da alienação, tanto na dimensão subjetiva do indivíduo e o tratamento da alienação psíquica, quanto na dimensão política da sociedade e a luta contra a alienação colonial no seu sentido mais amplo. Para isso, utilizo alguns dos seus textos menores e de ocasião, além dos seus livros. Identifico, assim, a permanência de uma perspectiva acional da alienação, baseada na necessidade da desalienação através do engajamento em processos humanizadores e na luta política de descolonização.

Solidarity From The Perspective Of Arthur SchopenhauerSolidarity From The Perspective Of Arthur Schopenhauer

Luis Ignacio Moreira Lima — 2025-04-01

This paper aims to outline and problematize the concept of solidarity through the lens of Arthur Schopenhauer. To this end, we draw on the works of Vilmar Debona and Max Horkheimer. The objective is unfolded in three mains steps: (1) to describe fundamental aspects of Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of will, which portrays the world as pain and suffering, and briefly sketch his triple characterology; (2) to analyze the mystery of compassion and his cardinal virtues: justice and charity; (3) to indicate and delimit what solidarity might represent within this philosophical framework — that is, “where” and “from what” it could be situated on the author’s philosophy, while also initially proposing a hypothetical differentiation between direct and indirect solidarity. Finally, we suggest that solidarity could function as an auxiliary device to the cardinal virtues, making its household on the so-called little ethics and contributing, through the artifices of reason, to mitigating the harms caused by social suffering.

Social Rights And Emancipation:

Valentina Moreira — 2025-04-01

This article explores the relation between the concept of emancipation and the potential of social rights for the emancipatory process, aiming to contribute to contemporary debates on rights and freedom within a socialist perspective. The research employs a bibliographic review to analyze the disruptive potential of social rights against the capitalist order and their role in promoting an integrative society based on solidarity. Departing from the theme of rights in the writings of the young Marx, as well as subsequent interpretations by contemporary theorists in law and philosophy who have used Marx's texts to reflect on the evolving concept of emancipation within the Marxian framework, this article investigates to what extent social rights are capable of granting materiality to this concept, thus overcoming the disintegrative tendency of civil society. Therefore, the study highlighted the relevance of this category of rights to the process of recognizing the complementary dimension of needs which is presupposed in the notion of emancipation, indicating the necessity of interpreting them beyond the semantics of subjective rights.

Normativiness of coercion in the Kantian legal system in three steps

Indalécio Robson Rocha — 2025-04-01

The purpose of this paper is to argue about how legal deduction based on freedom can promote the normativity of right. Without being able to offer a definitive answer, the debate on the distinction between ethics and right is used as a strategy to address the arguments in favor of a strong and unconditional normativity of right. In this context, it is argued that Kantian right is derived from practical freedom and is a subspecies of morality, from which derives its unconditional normative force. This connection can be made from the objective practical reality of right, through which is perceptible a singular and unconditional legal-normative externality, which should not be reduced to the factual reality of positive right. The consequence of these arguments is that, for legal coercion to be normatively consistent, it must be based on legal reasons, that is, argumentative evidence that can be fundamentally traced back to practical freedom. In the end, a validation procedure of coercion is presented in three steps, clarifying how it would be possible to identify the unconditionality of the right normativity in the legal Kantian system.

Wisdom And Society In Vico’s Sixth Oration

Marcelo Lopes Rosa — 2025-04-01

The main objective of this article is to discuss the interaction between social life and wisdom, in Vico's Sixth Inaugural Oration. This oration is a posthumous text that already brought some aspects of his theory on the relationship between knowledge and its context. Divided in two parts by Vico, the first deals with the studies finalities and, in the rest, examines the method of studies. In this article, we will analyze the studies finalities that relate the return caused by that the lack of eloquence with selfishness and social disruption, represented by the biblical punishment of Nimrod's descendants; and we will analyze the social changes that are promoted by wisdom, capitalized in the stories of Orpheus and Amphion, in the opposite way, which present a picture of human beings who leave loneliness for life in society. In the Sixth Oration, Vico associate the elements of language, morals and wisdom with social life. In this way, Vico portrays the social relevance of wisdom when discussing the finalities and method of studies using biblical and mythological examples.