Viriato Soromenho-Marques

• University of Lisbon

Os debates em torno do Antropoceno contribuíram para desqualificar uma interpretação redutora da crise ambiental que a procura entender como uma deficiência no interior de um modelo de civilização que se considera essencialmente positivo e duradouro, deficiência essa que pode ser corrigida por meios tecnológicos, que dispensam um exame crítico mais...

The exponential acceleration of the global environmental and climate crisis is becoming an imminent and dangerous existential threat to the sheer survival of humankind. The origins of this unique menacing predicament are deeply rooted in the culture developed in the cradle of European Modernity. It is a culture of utilitarianism, fuelled by an uncr...

The exponential acceleration of the global environmental and climate crisis is becoming an imminent and dangerous existential threat to the sheer survival of humankind. The origins of this unique menacing predicament are deeply rooted in the culture developed in the cradle of European Modernity. It is a culture of utilitarianism, fuelled by an uncr...

Although it is important to communicate scientific knowledge, it seems that this assumption is even more evident when it comes to environment-related themes, which have gained more relevance in the public sphere in the last decades. This article evaluates the spectacularization techniques of technology and science displayed as if they were the only...

A crise global do ambiente representa, pela primeira vez na história da humanidade, uma ameaça ontológica, de origem antrópica, à sustentabilidade das condições biofísicas que permitiram o prosperar das civilizações tecnológicas complexas desde o final da última glaciação, na breve época geológica conhecida por Holocénico. Este volume está organiza...

A consciência que o homem tem do mundo decorre mas influencia também a consciência que ele tem de si próprio e é na intersecção destas duas percepções que a relação entre o homem e a natureza se estabelece.

The Paris Agreement (COP 21) indicates an effort of nations towards the creation of a worldwide mechanism to control climate. Estimated to enter into force in 2020, the Agreement recognizes that countries may be affected not only by climate changes, but also by the impact of the actions taken in response to those changes. The objectives of this pap...

Considerando os motivos pelos quais os militares estão atentos à relação entre segurança e alterações climáticas (AC), o artigo tem como objetivo identificar os reflexos dessa relação nas forças armadas (FA) e a necessidade de capacitação de seus recursos humanos para atuarem na gestão de riscos e desastres. O artigo também apresenta resultados de...

In his seminal work of 1939 about the idea of progress, published and awarded in the University of Coimbra intellectual milieu, the young Vasco Magalhães-Vilhena wrote what is probably the first major philosophical essay in the Portuguese language, deeply connected with a Marxist world vision. The essay is a well-established academic master-piece,...

Em 2015, as alterações climáticas são elevadas ao mesmo nível de ameaça que armas de destruição em massa e ataques terroristas na National Security Strategy of United States of America, fomentando discussões sobre a construção de uma das maiores ameaças do Século XXI. A pesquisa tem como objetivo identificar fatos e eventos que contribuíram para qu...

In 2015, climate change is elevated to the same threat level as that of weapons of mass destruction and terrorist attacks in National Security Strategy of United States of America, causing discussions about the construction of one of the biggest threats of the twenty-first century. This research aims to identify facts and events that contributed fo...

In 2015, climate change is elevated to the same threat level as that of weapons of mass destruction and terrorist attacks in National Security Strategy of United States of America, causing discussions about the construction of one of the biggest threats of the twenty-first century. This research aims to identify facts and events that contributed fo...

Resumo Montaigne claimed that philosophy was a learning exercise to prepare ourselvesfor death. But the truth is that we are never quite prepared for what we knowto be inevitable. More so than any other scientific domain, philosophy is always animperfect and incomplete form of knowledge in the task of preparing ourselves fordeath. Especially when...

This paper tackles the complex nature of the concept of enthusiasm in three distinct moments of Kant’s thought. It pervades along the different evolutionary periods of the critical philosophy, both as a symptom of the most ugly features of human condition and as a sign of the way human beings are invited and commanded to take part in the process of...

The common ground and dissimilarities in the reciprocal influence between two apparently identical concepts in the Contemporary western political tradition - freedom and liberty - are dealt in this paper. The author tries to tackle the interrelated genealogy both of freedom and liberty categories, in the long period opened by the English Civil War...

In this paper the philosophical foundations of the first Portuguese Constitution are submitted to critical analysis. Drafted in the aftermath of the 1820 Revolution, the Constitution of 1822 is deeply determined by contradictory tensions and forces. We may see in it the trace of the freedom trends developed in the Enlightenment period and led to pr...

En tant que construct ion dûe à l’art humain, la ville es t devenue la deuxième nature de l’homme, mais, en même temps, le lieu où le malaise et la décadence de la civilisation se font les plus visibles. La tâche de l’écologie urbaine est de comprendre l'i dent ité de la ville, sans oublier les liens avec la première nature qui est à sa racine.