Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:21:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lilia Dinelli.pdf: 2644527 bytes, checksum: 32106be4115484767e97ce3f8549132d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-14 / The present research intends to contribute to the relation field between religion and education, specifically the concept of religion as an educational process ac-cording to the thought of Meishu-Sama, founder of the Church of World Mes-sianity. The research is divided into three parts. At first, it presents the life of Meishu-Sama and the history of foundation of the Messianic Church, which oc-curred in the first half of the twentieth century in Japan. In the second part, the concept of Meishu-Sama on the function of religion and its relation with educa-tion is studied, especially in the key challenge for the development of human being. In the third part, a dialogue between the educational thoughts of Paulo Freire and Meishu-Sama is established, especially the challenge of humanizing and notions of banking education and liberating dialogue (Paulo Freire) and dead education and living education (Meishu-Sama). In this dialogue it is given emphasis to the notion spiritual education of Meishu-Sama, who con-siders fundamental to critic the disbelief of the modern world regarding the spiritual world . For this author, deconstructing the materialistic thought and integrating the human nature is the task of religion as much as of education. / Esta pesquisa busca apresentar contribuições para o campo da relação entre religião e educação, especificamente a concepção da religião como um pro-cesso pedagógico no pensamento de Meishu-Sama, fundador da Igreja Messi-ânica Mundial. O trabalho está dividido em três partes. A primeira apresenta a vida de Meishu-Sama e a história da fundação da Igreja Messiânica Mundial, que ocorreu na primeira metade do século XX no Japão. A segunda estuda a concepção de Meishu-Sama sobre a função da religião e a relação desta com a educação, especialmente no desafio fundamental para a formação do ser hu-mano. A terceira parte estabelece um diálogo entre os pensamentos educacio-nais de Paulo Freire e Meishu-Sama, especialmente em torno do desafio da humanização e das noções de educação bancária e a libertadora dialógica (Paulo Freire) e a educação morta e educação viva (Meishu-Sama). Neste diálogo é dado destaque à noção de educação espiritualista de Meishu-Sama, que considera fundamental criticar a descrença do mundo moderno em relação ao mundo espiritual . Para este autor, desconstruir o pensamento materialista e integrar o ser humano na natureza é tarefa tanto da religião co-mo da educação.

The place of virtue in the philosophy of Plotinus Abstract The main intention of this thesis is to clarify some aspects of Plotinus's concept of virtue. Significant part of it is a report of J. M. Dillon's article An ethic for the late anthique sage and its comparison with P. Hadot's essay Plotinus or the simplicity of vision, which form a base for characteristics of a dualism between sensual and spiritual world, the body/soul polarity, and relation between higher and lower virtues. Consequently a relationship of a Plotinian sage towards others is being investigated. The result of this thesis confirms that Dillon's interpretation of a radical distinction between polarities mentioned above is exaggerated and his pronouncement of an absence of the element of concern for others in Plotinus's ethical reflextion is basically mistaken. Key words Plotinus, ethics, virtue, neoplatonism, J. M. Dillon, P. Hadot, higher and lower virtues, relation with other, body and soul, sensual and spiritual world, late anthique philosophy.