O pensamento ocidental entrou, em seus primórdios fundantes, em um beco, sem saber que se tratava de uma via sem saída. Quando chegado o tão esperado acabamento, não houve a recompensa sonhada, algum tipo de conhecimento pleno, mas o desânimo de uma obra não concluída. Foi necessário buscar uma saída, a qual não poderia ser outra senão a própria entrada. Assim, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Arendt e outros redesenharam todo o percurso da filosofia até os que com desdém foram chamados poetas, os pré-socráticos, a estabelecer novas possibilidades para a já tão íntima relação entre verdade e liberdade, bem como novas possibilidades para o ser e seu modos, o dever-ser e o poder-ser, e, ainda, novas possibilidades para o próprio pensamento. / Western thought has entered, in its infancy founding, in an alley, not knowing that it was a dead end. When it reached the awaited end, there was no dreamed reward, some kind of full knowledge, but the dismay of a work not completed. It was necessary to find a way out, which could not be other than the entry itself. Thus, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Arendt and others redesigned all the way of philosophy until those who were scornfully called poets, the pre-Socratics, to establish new possibilities for the already intimate relationship between truth and freedom, as well as new possibilities to the being and its modes, the being-ought and the being-able, and also new possibilities for thought itself.

O pensamento ocidental entrou, em seus primórdios fundantes, em um beco, sem saber que se tratava de uma via sem saída. Quando chegado o tão esperado acabamento, não houve a recompensa sonhada, algum tipo de conhecimento pleno, mas o desânimo de uma obra não concluída. Foi necessário buscar uma saída, a qual não poderia ser outra senão a própria entrada. Assim, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Arendt e outros redesenharam todo o percurso da filosofia até os que com desdém foram chamados poetas, os pré-socráticos, a estabelecer novas possibilidades para a já tão íntima relação entre verdade e liberdade, bem como novas possibilidades para o ser e seu modos, o dever-ser e o poder-ser, e, ainda, novas possibilidades para o próprio pensamento. / Western thought has entered, in its infancy founding, in an alley, not knowing that it was a dead end. When it reached the awaited end, there was no dreamed reward, some kind of full knowledge, but the dismay of a work not completed. It was necessary to find a way out, which could not be other than the entry itself. Thus, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Arendt and others redesigned all the way of philosophy until those who were scornfully called poets, the pre-Socratics, to establish new possibilities for the already intimate relationship between truth and freedom, as well as new possibilities to the being and its modes, the being-ought and the being-able, and also new possibilities for thought itself.

The aim of this quantitative study was to from a gender perspective understand and measure the mental health among young people as a sense of managing to handle situations and also how satisfied young people are with their personal qualities. The study also aims to see if there is a connection between these two ways of explaining mental health. This study takes its standpoint from a gender theory and gender stereotypes. The study was conducted as a survey with 100 young girls and boys, all of whom was students of a Swedish upper secondary school. The result of the study show that young people in general has a good sense of being able to handle situations. There was as expected a difference between young girls and boys to be found, girls had in general a lower sense of managing to handle situations. Regarding the sense of being satisfied with the personal qualities, the girls and boys in this study show a general picture of being quite satisfied with their personal qualities. It has also shown that many of the results of this study is depending of gender and the beliefs and structures there is in society about how to be a “good” man or woman.