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This paper examines the reading of Hans Jonas about the impact of new technologies on human and extra-humanlife. He highlights, in particular, that new technologies have assumed an excessive power to the man, who bringsboth good and disastrous consequences, which may even lead to the extinction of the present and future life. He confirms that this significant increase in technical knowledge. Unfortunately, that was not proportional to the increase of human wisdom. So, our intention is to present, according to the understanding of Hans Jonas, the proposed review of the prevailing ethical levels along the western philosophical tradition; elucidating the main features of modern technology; presenting the shortcomings of traditional ethics before emerging problems in the contemporary world; circumscribing how ethical principle of responsibility emerges and showing how extent scientific progress demands ethical prudence. Therefore, we support the idea that the ethics of Hans Jonas goes beyond the anthropocentric relationship, promoting bio-cosmocentric ethics that includes the extra-human, considering the development of ethical awareness and the responsibility of man to the present and future of life on the planet.

Social philosophy takes care of three tasks: the conceptual idea about an institution, how it functions and how it accomplish. In this sense, a challenge to social philosophy, from the point of view of critical-normative research, is to think of the social institution not only as the backbone of society, but, above all, to link it with the social-ontological argument with emancipatory approach; in other words, how a social institution how to deal with its task of promoting social goods and social rights. I intend to explain the philosophical-social requirement of the social-ontological argument in the discussion of critical-normative research taking into account that, at first, the social institution is understand itself as a medium to emancipation and, secondly, this institution stem from a detranscendental reason conception and this refer to a new way to think the social philosophy inside in the historical background of ours social communities.

Conceptual overview that places the importance of knowledge as an element of reality school for institutional reorganization and evaluation as a subsidy for this reflection and action for reorganization. Located public policies in different contexts highlighting the practice as the locus of insubordination bureaucratic processes which emerge in a counter-regulation to the extent that articulate the efforts of different actors of the educational scene. It is organized into captions highlighting the social quality of education as a concept discussed synthesis including the different dimensions of quality and contained in the negotiated quality. Finally discusses how the indicators of age-grade gap instigate the search for a higher quality social education.

From an analysis of the Habermasian argumentation carried out in his work "Knowledge and Interest" of 1968, which we worked on from the 1987 translation; and anchored in the works of the Brazilian philosophers Durão, published in his book "A crítica de Habermas à dedução transcendental de Kant" of 1996 and Hansen, in his article published in Revista Crítica, entitled "Os riscos da crítica da sociedade" of 1998, we reflect, in this article, about how Habermas rescues the Theory of Knowledge from the distorted way behaved by Comtean positivism, passing through Freud and Marx to recover it as a Critical Theory of Society. We present the advent of the Information Age and the accompanying communication facilities to present the model of Distance Education as an effective way of extending the reach of Social Criticism as a self-reflection that makes the knowledge as a critical instrument not only for the individual but also of society.

The presente work to analyze the conjuncture political, social and economic changes in the 18th
and early 19th centuries, experienced by individuals who dedicated themselves to trade in Minas
Gerais. Through post-mortem inventories, matrimonial proceedings, patente letters of the
Overseas Historical Archive and documents of the Tomb Tower Archive, the research was aimed
at analyzing some subjects of the parish who established business networks, family aliances and
other strategies to socially ascend and acquire power and distinction. To this end, we observe the
material wealth they have conquered and the imaterial power as benefits, privileges,
commenities, mercies, officies that obtained along their trajectories with the purpose of being
inserted into the list of great lords in the region. We observed that these individuals and their
families kept in the eight hundred the same mechanisms emploved over the sevem hundred as
aliances, obtainig concessions, mercies, privileges and acquiring material wealth be preserved
among the wealthiest layer of the population. Although governed by a political system that
sought to diferrentiate itself and liberal ideals, the habitants of Minas Gerais in the XIX,
perpetuated the same standards of hierarchy, exclusion and dominance as the XVIII.

Objective: The study aimed to identify the social representations of men about prostate cancer and their masculinity
against the disease, and analyze its implications for health. Method: This is an exploratory qualitative approach of case
study which takes as input a conceptual Theory of Representations, performed with 10 subjects diagnosed with
prostate cancer. Results: Through content analysis yielded the following thematic units: (Re) knowing the prostate;
this problem called prostate and prostate cancer as a symbol of man's masculinity. Conclusion: The study provided
evidence that prostate cancer is a disease that is directly related to how they perceive their consequences in the social
context, which are responsible for providing moments of pain, sorrow, and to exchange experiences, especially health
risks

The structure of the work is built in two stages: The first discusses employability in the governance mobile monitoring device. In this approach to reflect back to the surface the issue of the use of SMS messages in the monitoring of electoral processes. The second phase focuses on the mobile phone in the communicative process in rural areas, which are emphasized in the latest technological advances in communications the impact infrastructure; the third phase describes the phone incorporating on business development processes and business transactions, with the focus on consultation with PayPal and services payments.