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Discusses NATO's unique role in maintaining security and stability during the Cold War. and argues that the peace mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina represents a turning point in NATO's mission and a change in Portugal's position within NATO. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "Os 50 anos da Aliança Atlântica". Summaries in English and French p. 253 and 255.

Examines historical dimension of humanitarian intervention, focusing on the 1875-78 Eastern Crisis in the Balkans and the Bosnian conflict of 1992-95. Summaries in English and French p. 317-9.

The text is part of a doctoral research process in education, and dialogues, in an essayistic manner, with themes such as the city, images, body and everyday affective crossings. These dialogues tension with education, history, daily life and other ways of thinking about the urban tangle, anchored in the cartographic method. Through formative processes experienced by the author, seek to evidence issues, concerns and discomforts that are still unstable, rehearsed in everyday life and outlined in thought and inventions. It argues that the power of creation and wandering in the city are insurgent ways of ruptures in the face of current conservative advances, paying attention to the exercise of otherness, inventiveness and experimentation, having as main references authors such as Michel Foucault, Suely Rolnik, Félix Guattari , Peter Pelbart, among others.

Montaigne and Diderot were philosophers, humanists, and defenders of critical skepticism. His writings are characterized by a fluid, private, and comic writing style. In Diderot we see a philosopher playwright, author and critical theatrical. In Montaigne a non-academic philosopher, a magistrate averse to the perfectionism of scholastic philosophy, which instituted a new style of writing. There is a common trait in how they both understand philosophy. For Montaigne and Diderot, ethics and aesthetics are two domains of philosophy that have a close relationship. The work of art is an essential element that has the power to awaken the human spirit and lead it to the experience of true virtue.

Este artigo propõe-se a apresentar dois ambientes virtuais, o AMADIS e o Orkut, a fim de estabelecer relações entre eles, tendo como apoio teórico os conceitos de estética e socialidade. O primeiro é um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem desenvolvido para fins pedagógicos; o segundo é um ambiente virtual que tem alcance mundial e agrega indivíduos por suas redes de interesses e amizades. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o entrelaçamento entre teoria e algumas das características dos ambientes, suas semelhanças e distinções, a partir do estudo da formação de redes digitais suscitadas por influências estéticas. Foi realizado um estudo qualitativo comparativo estrutural entre os ambientes, colocando-os em paralelo, traçando analogias entre suas áreas, funcionalidades e possibilidades de ações dos usuários. Ao final do estudo e da argumentação, conclui-se que as redes de relações entre os conceitos-chave do estudo da correlação estética-socialidade (neotribalismo, corpo coletivo, ator-persona, espacialidade e pertença, de acordo com Maffesoli), estruturadas a partir do confronto entre as subdivisões dos ambientes, são rearranjáveis e recriáveis.

The contemporary debate in the theory of international relations is marked by two perspectives: on the one hand the perspective of political realism that conceives of peace as an inaccessible ideal and war as a necessary means for the acquisition and maintenance of power; and on the other hand the perspective of normativism or idealism that thinks the end (telos) of international relations beyond the conflicts of interest and the struggle for power. The first perspective deals with international relations at the level of being (of what is), the second at the level of ought (normative level). In view of this scenario, our idea in this article is to approach the problem of war and peace from an interdisciplinary study through contributions from Kant's Public International Law and Philosophy. In a first moment we will analyze the paradox of the war, then the role of the Public International Law for the problematic of the peace, and finally the contributions of Kant for the normative redefinition of the international right from his republican project of the league of peace (foedus pacificum).

Promoting another reading of 'L'aperto: l'uomo e l'animale' of Giorgio Agamben, the present article has the double intention to expose the anthropological machine that realizes the classical and modern anthropogenesis and to introduce aspects of indigenous philosophy (the philosophy produced and expressed by Brazilian Amerindians) which influence the relation between man and animal, as well between humankind and animality, in contrast. Taking the risk here of using the expression indigenous philosophy, aware of the hypothesis of being misunderstood, we want to defend the possibility of this use. Between the Brazilians Amerindians, we are going to visit together the writings of Gersem Baniwa, Daniel Munduruku e Davi Kopenawa, among others. If the contemporary is absolutely present at us and captivates our attention with lights and shadows, nothing can be more contemporary then the effort of enlarge our epistemological horizon.

The notions of enthusiasm and fanaticism, besides the fact that they were associated with the concrete phenomenon of religious zeal at the time of the Reformation, were also, throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the object of a literature that built a specific image of the so-called enthusiasts, be they the English Puritans, the Huguenot prophets or the Jansenist convulsionaries. By constructing this image, literature - philosophical, medical or satirical - produced at the same time the specular image of itself, sometimes as pure alterity in relation to the fanatic, sometimes relativizing this opposition. Our journey starts from some of these formulations in England at the beginning of the 17th century, and then pays attention carefully to the elaborations of Swift and Diderot about fanaticism and enthusiasm, from the beginning to the middle of the 18th century, showing that philosophy itself, often understood as the opposite of fanaticism or madness, can also become its other when it gives in to enthusiasm.

In the late 1950's, Merleau-Ponty shifted his research focus from phenomenology to ontology. Such a transition involves the articulation of his previous studies of perception and corporeity with the philosophical unfolding of the postulates of physics and biology from the first half of the century. By reformulating the concept of nature, fostered not only by the sciences mentioned above but also by Whitehead's metaphysics, Merleau-Ponty proposes the admission of nature as a temporal flux of self-producing meaningful expressiveness, incorporating temporality and negativity into the core of being, something that before was exclusive of the being-for-it-self. Merleau-Ponty's flesh, as we shall see, is in harmony with Whitehead's notion of process, pointing to a certain pre-socratic hylozoism in the ontology of both. That being said, the purpose of the paper is to examine Merleau-Ponty's indirect ontology, indicating its convergence with Whitehead's philosophy, so we can finally introduce an incipient critique based on the work of Francisco Varela. It is argued here that the concept of autopoiesis may indicate an alternative to Merleau-Ponty's notion of nature.