Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Stiebler Leite Villela.pdf: 705300 bytes, checksum: 54fd4954f58d8d697f4def478d2f7044 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-13 / The present study intended an approach between Heidegger´s thoughts in Being and time and Dante´s poetry in Divine comedy. The approach aroused from the knowledge that both works bring a comprehension of the human existence, each one in a proper way. In order to accomplish that it was necessary a non dogmatic reading of Divine comedy, that is, a non certain reading by any religious dogmatism. This approach was organized in four main points where we found accordance in both works. That is: Care and Way ; Falling and Perdition ; Temporality and Eternity and Authenticity and Salvation . In each one of those topics it was possible from the approach between both works an amplification of Dante´s poetic images and Heidegger´s concepts. With the development of the approach, we came across that the guilt concept has a central part in Divine comedy as much as in Being and time. The approach between those works, as well as its readings, is one among many others possible. This study did not intend to be more than the beginning of a conversation between Martin Heidegger s thought and Dante Alighieri s poetry / O presente estudo pretendeu uma aproximação entre o pensamento heideggeriano de Ser e tempo e a poética dantesca da Divina comédia. A aproximação partiu da constatação de que ambas as obras, cada uma ao seu modo, realizam uma compreensão da existência humana. Para tal tarefa foi necessária uma leitura não dogmática da Divina comédia, isto é, uma leitura que não estivesse determinada por nenhum dogmatismo religioso. A aproximação foi dividida em quatro pontos principais nos quais foi possível encontrar correspondências entre as obras. São eles: Cuidado e Caminho , Queda e Perdição , Temporalidade e Eternidade e Apropriação e Salvação . Em cada um desses tópicos foi possível, a partir da aproximação entre as obras, uma ampliação da leitura tanto das imagens dantescas quanto dos conceitos heideggerianos. Notamos, com o desenvolvimento da aproximação, que o elemento da culpa é central tanto na Divina comédia quanto em Ser e tempo. A aproximação entre as obras, assim como a leitura que tivemos de cada uma delas, é uma dentre tantas outras possíveis. Este trabalho não pretendeu ser mais que um início do diálogo entre o pensamento de Martin Heidegger e a poesia de Dante Alighieri

The thesis argues that for Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger, the free will debate has been rendered intractable by a fundamental misunderstanding of the terms involved. This is exacerbated by a failure to identify and adopt an appropriate methodological approach to the problem. Both philosophers argue that this error in the free will debate is symptomatic of a broader misunderstanding of philosophical enquiry and the method it necessitates. For Heidegger, the entire history of ‘analytic/western' ontology has been fatally misconceived as a result of an effort to define the being of entities in static terms. The insistence on the question of what a being ‘is' obstructs any meaningful enquiry by conceding its existence at the outset of the investigation. Sartre's project is founded on Heidegger's argument, pushing it into a definitive claim about the nature of consciousness. He argues that as the only being for whom ‘meaning' is possible, consciousness is distanced from beings by ‘nothingness' which ensures its ontological freedom. The thesis will argue that Sartre has misconstrued Heidegger's work, making comprehension of his freedom all the more complicated. We propose that a thorough investigation of their projects will reveal an account of ontological freedom that does not suffer from the shortcomings of existentialism whilst avoiding the methodological missteps of the traditional discourse.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Daniel Pansarelli / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino, História, Filosofia das Ciências e Matemática, 2014.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-23T14:20:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Reginaldo Alex Calcavara.pdf: 2029583 bytes, checksum: 1eb772d96a68609843a4414a83ede253 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A pesquisa articula os temas da ontologia do espaço e a dicotomia entre a Geografia Física e a Geografia Humana no âmbito do movimento de renovação crítica da geografia brasileira. Busca demonstrar que há um nexo entre a posição assumida por esta vertente da geografia brasileira frente à referida dicotomia e a reflexão ontológica acerca do objeto da disciplina, diretamente influenciada pelo pensamento marxista. Indica como campo alternativo de reflexão ontológica a abordagem do filósofo alemão Martin Heidegger em torno da questão do ser, destacando, dentro da amplitude e centralidade deste assunto na obra do referido filósofo, a perspectiva da questão da técnica que, redimensionando a noção de produção, permitiria oferecer um horizonte alternativo para a ontologia na geografia capaz, sugere-se, de abrir a questão do ser enquanto questão a ser pensada / The study articulates the themes of ontology of space and the dichotomy between Physical Geography and Human Geography in the renewal movement critical of Brazilian geography. Seeks to demonstrate that there is a link between, on the one hand, the position taken by this part of Brazilian geography forward that dichotomy, and on the other hand, the ontological reflection about the object of discipline, directly influenced by Marxism. Indicates how alternative field of ontological thinking approach of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger on the question of being, especially within the scope and centrality of this issue in the work of that philosopher s perspective the question of technique, redefining the notion of production, would provide a horizon alternative ontology in geography capable, it is suggested, opening the question of being as a question to be thought

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Dissertacao_SaudeMentalCotidiano.pdf: 1670222 bytes, checksum: a6bad3744ebd49864c12c6571bd91f69 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Pesquisa qualitativa de abordagem Fenomenológica, que utilizou como referencial teórico-metodológico a filosofia de Martin Heidegger expressa em sua obra Ser e Tempo. Estudo realizado na Faculdade de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Pará no segundo semestre de 2013 e teve como objetivo revelar os sentidos e sentimentos que os docentes enfermeiros do segundo e do terceiro semestres do curso de graduação em enfermagem da UFPA expressam sobre a saúde mental no cotidiano de ser docente. Participaram dessa pesquisa nove enfermeiros docentes das atividades curriculares Introdução a Enfermagem (3) Atenção Integral a Saúde da Mulher, Criança e Adolescente (2), Atenção Integral a Saúde do Idoso (2), Processo Educativo I (1) e Exercício Profissional (1). O expresso pelos docentes foi captado por meio da entrevista fenomenológica agendada com cada docente e analisado pela instância ôntica que diz respeito à compreensão vaga e mediana. Cinco Unidades de Significados emergiram: US1 – saúde mental é fenômeno natural que se manifesta na liberdade para o modo de ser e estar com o outro numa relação equilibrada. US2 – a significação da saúde mental como essência das experiências vividas manifestada na possibilidade de acesso às coisas do mundo. US3 – saúde mental revela-se no cotidiano da prática em enfermagem nas diferentes fases da vida numa ocupação simplesmente dada. US4 – saúde mental manifestada no processo de formação como acontecimento secundário. US5 – o modo de ser docente em sua experiência de vida influencia as relações com o outro no processo de formação. O revelado no estudo, por meio do que foi falado, percebido e vivido, expressa que a preocupação com a saúde mental é um acontecimento, no entanto esta não se constitui como possibilidades, ou seja, não há uma ocupação antecipada da saúde mental como conteúdo formal desta ou daquela Atividade Curricular. É possível que o docente em seu modo de ser possa abrir-se ao novo, lançar-se no mundo e promover mudanças no cotidiano da formação de enfermeiros, ocupando-se da saúde mental, pois mesmo sem o conteúdo presente nos planos de ensino há o reconhecimento de sua existência e de sua importância na temporalidade da vida das pessoas. / Phenomenological qualitative research approach, which used as a theoretical and methodological framework philosophy of Martin Heidegger expressed in his work Being and Time. Study conducted at the School of Nursing, Federal University of Pará in the second half of 2013 and aimed to: reveal the meanings and feelings that the nursing professors of the second and third semesters of the undergraduate nursing of Federal University of Pará express on mental health in daily life to be teaching. Participated in this study of nine nursing professors curricular activities Introduction to Nursing ( 3 ) Integral Attention to Women, Children and Adolescents ( 2 ), Health Care for the older persons ( 2 ), Educational Process I ( 1 ). Professional Practice and Health ( 1 ). The expressed by teachers was captured by phenomenological interview scheduled with each teacher and analyzed by ontic instance as regards the vague understanding and median. Five units of meanings emerged: US1 - mental health is natural phenomenon that manifests itself in the freedom to be and how to be with each other in a balanced relationship. US2 - the significance of mental health as the essence of the experiences expressed in the possibility of access to the things of the world. US3 - mental health is revealed in everyday nursing practice in different stages of life in a given occupation simply. US4 - Mental Health manifested in the training process as a secondary event. US5 - how to be a teacher in their life experience influences relations with each other in the training process. The revealed in the study, through what was spoken, perceived and experienced, expressed concern that mental health is an event, however this does not constitute as possibilities, ie, there is an early occupation of mental health as content formal study of this or that activity. It is possible that teachers in their way of being able to open up again, launch into the world and promote changes in the daily training of nurses, taking care of mental health, because even without this in the syllabus content there the recognition of its existence and its importance in the temporality of life of the people. / Enfoque de investigación cualitativa fenomenológica, que utilizó como una filosofía marco teórico y metodológico de Martin Heidegger expresa en su libro Ser y tiempo. Estudio realizado en la Escuela de Enfermería de la Universidad Federal de Pará, en el segundo semestre de 2013 y tuvo como objetivo desvelar los significados y sentimientos que los profesores de enfermería de los semestres segundo y tercero de la enfermería de pregrado Federal University of Pará expresan sobre la salud mental en la vida cotidiana estar enseñando. Participaron del estudio de nueve profesores de enfermería actividades curriculares Introducción a la Enfermería (3) Atención Integral a la Mujer, la Niñez y la Adolescencia (2), Cuidado de la Salud de las Personas Mayores (2), Proceso Educativo I (1) Práctica Profesional y Salud (1 ). La expresada por los profesores fue capturado por la entrevista fenomenológica programado con cada maestro y analizado por la instancia óntica con respecto a la comprensión vaga y mediana. Cinco unidades de significados surgieron: US1 - la salud mental es un fenómeno natural que se manifiesta en la libertad de ser y cómo ser uno con el otro en una relación equilibrada. US2 - la importancia de la salud mental como la esencia de las experiencias expresadas en la posibilidad de acceso a las cosas del mundo. US3 - salud mental se revela en la práctica de enfermería todos los días en diferentes etapas de la vida en una ocupación dada, simplemente. US4 - Salud Mental manifiesta en el proceso de formación como un evento secundario. US5 - cómo ser un maestro en su experiencia de vida influye en la relación con el otro en el proceso de formación. El puesto de manifiesto en el estudio, a través de lo que fue dicho, percibe y se experimenta, expresó su preocupación acerca de la salud mental es un hecho, sin embargo, esto no constituye como posibilidades, es decir, hay una ocupación temprana de la salud mental como contenido estudio formal de tal o cual actividad. Es posible que los maestros en su forma de ser capaz de abrir de nuevo, lanzan al mundo y promover cambios en la formación diaria de las enfermeras, el cuidado de la salud mental, ya que incluso sin este en el contenido del programa no el reconocimiento de su existencia y su importancia en la temporalidad de la vida de las personas.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 22974 bytes, checksum: 99c771d9f0b9c46790009b9874d49253 (MD5) Dissertacao_ContributosHermeneuticoFilosoficos.pdf: 1078140 bytes, checksum: 6bafc02c97fd59cc3f3289bb5f20ba92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Este trabalho procura desenvolver algumas temáticas essenciais da Hermenêutica Filosófica em prol da uma fundamentação ética dos direitos humanos. Parte-se de problemas referentes ao discurso representativo da ciência jurídica e de metodologias canônicas de interpretação que acreditamos não serem capazes de determinar a razão de ser de direitos humanos enquanto um fundamento ético coerente da prática jurídica contemporânea. Trabalha-se, então, o sentido filosófico do cotidiano como tematização vinculada à vivência intuitiva dos intérpretes do direito: a qualificação ética dos direitos humanos emergiria, ademais, como parte constitutiva daquilo que, intuitivamente, reputamos como mais justo ou mesmo como um direito “melhor” já que eticamente fundamentado. Sob as premissas do pensamento ontológico de Heidegger, tratamos, pois, da fundamentação de direitos humanos enquanto um acontecimento necessário de nossa epocalidade. Doutra maneira, é dizer: tais direitos corresponderiam, de todo modo, ao movimento simbólico de nossa própria convivência – do ser-com epocal que nos determina ontologicamente no mundo. Para a viabilidade deste pensamento na prática jurídica; trabalhamos, já com Gadamer, sobre alguns conceitos humanísticos resgatados pela Hermenêutica Filosófica: nada mais oportuno, neste viés, do que pensarmos o direito enquanto uma filosofia prática. É pela atualidade hermenêutica da antiga phronésis que, então, a prática interpretativa pode corresponder ao seu substrato ético mais fundamental. Ainda sob as diretrizes da filosofia hermenêutica – e da Hermenêutica filosófica – tratamos, ao final, sobre em como intuições cotidianas do justo e as convicções que disto criamos poderiam corresponder à temática das estruturas pré-conceituais. Tal é o mote para se trabalhar, mais especificamente, a problemática da interpretação no direito. Em suma, visamos ressaltar, neste trabalho, a viabilidade ontológica dos direitos humanos na forma de valores contemporâneos vinculados à própria tradição da justiça: o sensus ético que fazemos em nosso cotidiano mais elementar torna-se, pois, mais um modo de sugerir a premência epocal destes direitos para o ethos de nossa convivência. / The present work develops some essential issues of philosophical hermeneutics as a way to fundament human rights in its ethical determination. The discussion is conducted as a hypothesis to face two problems: the representational model of the contemporary scientia juris and its methodologized way of interpretation may not fundament human rights in its proper reason of being. Still, as a consequence, these two problems might be seen as one of the causes to a “rational” but innocuous criticism about human rights as well. Therefore, the philosophical sense of the quotidian – of the “common” – is here discussed as a proper way to analyze the practical routine of law´s everyday interpreters as a pragmatic way to justify the need for human rights in a contemporary law practice. To discuss it, the thematic of intuition is here worked in its existential basis: so, in that way, human rights can be apologized as a substantive part of our intuitions about what is the most fair. Moreover, these fundamental rights can be even thought as a practical way to find out, normatively, the best right – the best law for our epoch. Heidegger leads us to investigate human rights as a necessary event for our time by its ethical significance. In other words: these rights constitute part of the movement of our being-with in its symbolic and suggestive significances. Gadamer help us to interpret that radical philosophical way by hermeneutic terms: to the law reality that idea can be seen as a re-turn to some lost concepts of our humanistic culture. With Gadamer we still can affirm that law is a practical “philosophy” in its most fundamental determinations. Therefore, the Greek disposition for the phronésis is, nowadays, a proper way to see human rights as an ethical manifestation for the best, for the most fundamental goods. Still through the philosophical hermeneutic ideas, we conclude the work with a more specific discussion about the relations between our intuitions, convictions and our pre-conceptual structure which determines the worldness of our concepts into Law´s social practice.

Sur les mathématiques et la poésie chez Lacan, plusieurs choses ont été dites afin de faire état, d’un côté des éléments heuristiques des mathématiques et de l’autre pour éclaircir la relation entre psychanalyse et poésie. Pourtant, les références sur l’articulation entre mathématiques et poésie sont, hélas, marginales. Une quête sur les distinctes formulations de la liaison entre science et psychanalyse selon Lacan, suit à une problématisation épistémologique et ontologique de la psychanalyse de Lacan ; là, nous trouvons deux plateformes où Lacan mobilise son approche des mathématiques et à la poésie. La première consiste en le mathème comme une alternative au poème heideggérien afin de désontologiser la psychanalyse. La deuxième est le rapatriement des poètes expulsés par Platon au champ psychanalytique. Nous traçons la trajectoire des usages et la fonction des mathématiques en lien avec ses élaborations poétiques tout au long de l’œuvre et l’enseignement de Lacan afin d’éprouver l’importance d’eux pour la théorie, la pratique et la clinique. Pour cela, nous prenons appui sur ce que Freud avait déjà dit sur ces savoirs, notamment sur la poésie. Un double groupement quadripartite est à la base de cette recherche. Premièrement, les mathématiques ou le Mathème réunit la formalisation, le mathème, les diagrammes et les objets/thèmes mathématiques. Deuxièmement, la poésie ou Poème se compose de quatre sous-ensembles : littérature, art, esthétique et création. Nous exposons finalement trois « cas » d’articulation entre Mathème et Poème extraits de l’œuvre de Lacan. / There is no doubt that plenty has been said about the place of mathematics and poetry in the work of Jacques Lacan. On the one hand mathematics is often convoked as a heuristic tool for psychoanalysis. On the other, many books have been written in order to clarify the relationship between psychoanalysis and poetry. However, references to the articulation of poetry and mathematics remain marginal. After an epistemological and ontological problematisation of this articulation in Lacan’s work, we explore the different links that Lacan makes between science and psychoanalysis. Here we find two platforms where Lacan mobilises an approach to poetry and mathematics. The first one is the mathem as an alternative to the heideggerian poem, a shift that allows a deontologization of psychoanalysis. The second one consists of Plato’s evicted poets repatriation to the psychoanalytical field. Taking into account what Freud said about both disciplines –especially poetry– we trace the trajectory of the usages and functions of mathematics in relation to the poetic elements that Lacan developed throughout his work in order to discuss its theoretical, practical and clinical pertinence. As such, this research is structured in two sections consisting of four parts each. The first one, entitled Mathematics or Mathem stands for Formalisation, Mathem, Diagrams and Mathematical objects/themes. The second one, entitled Poetry or Poem, is composed of four subsets: Literature, Art, Aesthetics and Creation. Finally, we expose three “cases” of articulation between Mathem and Poem extracted from Lacan’s work.

El objetivo central de esta tesis doctoral es intentar establecer una aproximación entre los programas filosóficos de Wittgenstein y Heidegger, de forma particular, en lo que se refiere al grado de influencia de ambos con respecto al abandono de la moderna razón fundamentadora y el arribo a la posmoderna fundamentación lingüística y pragmática. El eje Wittgenstein – Heidegger es utilizado como punto de referencia para analizar la transformación que tiene lugar en la filosofía del siglo veinte con el llamado giro linguïstico. En el primer capítulo se realiza la contextualización histórica tanto de la tradición hermenéutica como de la analítica. Se hace referencia a sus respectivos orígenes y a su evolución hasta arribar al siglo veinte. Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, en el segundo capítulo se realiza la confontación entre las dos figuras emblemáticas de cada tradición: Wittgenstein y Heidegger, considerando como referente fundamental el ataque de ambos hacia la moderna razón fundamentadora. Si ambos atacan la razón moderna como fundamento, entonces ¿en donde se encuentra ahora la justificación para nuestras prácticas éticas y epistémicas?. Puestas de este modo las cosas es facil distinguir el asomo del nihilismo que es el tema del tercer capítulo. Mientras que en el cuarto capítulo se intenta mostrar la nueva base de fundamentación de nuestras prácticas a partir de la lectura del Wittgenstein de las Untersuchungen y del Heidegger de la década del treinta en adelante. / The main objective of this doctoral thesis is trying to establish an approximation between the philosophical programmes of Wittgenstein and Heidegger, particularly concerning the degree of influence of both of them as regards the abandonment of modern foundational reason and the arrival to the postmodern linguistic and pragmatic foundation. The axis Wittgenstein – Heidegger is used as a benchmark to analyze the transformation that takes place in twentieth-century philosophy with the so-called linguistic turn. The first chapter provides the historical contextualization of both hermeneutical and analytical traditions. Reference is made to their respective origins and evolution up to the twentieth century. Keeping in mind the above mentioned the second chapter presents the confrontation of the two emblematic figures of each tradition: Wittgenstein and Heidegger, having as main referent their attack to the modern foundational reason. If both of them attack modern reason as a foundation, where is the justification of our ethical and epistemical practices? Within this context, it is easy to recognize the appearance of nihilism, which is the topic of the third chapter. Whereas the fourth chapter attempts to show the new base foundation of our practices from the reading of Wittgenstein's Untersuchungen and the Heidegger 1930's onwards.

En fait, nous pouvons résumer l'objectif général de cette méditation comme une exploration philosophique de trois questions précises: i-pourquoi avons-nous, dans notre vie quotidienne, à prendre position concernant une multitude de sujets (notre régime alimentaire, nos types d'amitié, nos choix politiques etc.)? ii- comment vivons-nous, au-dedans de nous-mêmes, cette prise de position? iii- est-ce que cette expérience que nous faisons quotidiennement de l'éthique ne pourrait pas illustrer aussi la façon par laquelle nous nous regroupons en communauté? Ces trois questions ont été réfléchies et explorées par l'entremise de philosophes tels que Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze et Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel à propos respectivement de la vérité comme erreur nécessaire, du souci, de la faculté de juger, de l'esthétisme de l'existence, de la visagéité et du savoir absolu. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Éthique, Expérience, Deleuze, Hegel, Heidegger, Disposition, Affect, Dialectique, Vérité, Temporalité, Différence, Unité.

Title from PDF of title page. / Document formatted into pages; contains 90 pages. / Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. / ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the connections between Arne Naess's Deep Ecology and Martin Heidegger's Phenomenology. The latter provides a philosophical basis for the former. Martin Heidegger's critique of traditional metaphysics and his call for an "event" ontology that is deeper than the traditional substance ontology opens a philosophical space in which a different conception of what it is to be emerges. Heidegger's view of humans also provides a basis for the wider and deeper conception of self Arne Naess seeks: one that gets rid of the presupposition that human beings are isolated subjects embedded in a framework of objects distinct from them. Both Heidegger and Naess illustrate how the substance-ontological dogma affects human culture, encouraging humans to live as if they were divorced from their environmental surroundings. / ABSTRACT: When humans live according to an atomistic conception of themselves as independent from their context, alienation results, not only from each other, and not only of humans from the surrounding environment, but from themselves as well. This thesis focuses on Heidegger's employment of the conception of poiesis or self-bringing-forth as clarifying the "root" of such ecosystemic processes as growth, maturation, reproduction, and death. Thus, Heidegger's call to phenomenology -- "to the things themselves" -- is a call away from the objectifying dichotomies through which substance ontology articulates the world into isolated components. / ABSTRACT: It is the purpose of this thesis to demonstrate not only the connections between the later Heidegger and Naess, but also to argue in favor of their claims that traditional philosophical perspectives regarding humans, the environment, and ethics need to be re-appropriated in a new way in order to avoid further ecological degradation and provide for the health and well being of the future generations that will inevitably inherit the effects of our present actions. / System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.