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This study argues that, for Hobbes, rhetoric was an important linguistic and conceptual apparatus available in his time, especially for the description of physical phenomena in the nascent experimental science of the English 17th century. Considering that the epistemic parameters for describing this science were yet to be developed, Hobbes sought solutions in the doctrines of the arts of good speech, starting with his anthropology. The notion of conatus in Hobbes indicates the weight of the classical rhetorical tradition in his philosophy, with emphasis on Aristotle, the Stoics and Quintilian. We will see how rhetoric, articulated with physics and ethics, constituted a relevant paradigm of expression and research for Thomas Hobbes on conatus and went beyond the ornamentation of the text in his study of bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the emancipatory meaning in Paulo Freire. This notion articulates the revolutionary humanist dimension that the author attributed to the education for freedom. It develops the following question: what is the emancipatory meaning of the Freirean utopia? It is highlighted that the Freirean utopia is configured by overcoming the capitalist sociability when approaching education as a dimension of human praxis that is developed in the historical process. A bibliographic review was carried out for analyzing Paulo Freire's revolutionary humanism, especially Education as a Practice of Freedom and Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The Freirean dialogue with authors who approach Brazilian social formation and the Marxian tradition of studying the philosophy of praxis was also systematized to establish the relationship between education for freedom and human emancipation. The critical theory of education indicates that the Freirean utopia was guided by an integral and unlimited notion of freedom. The relationship between an education for freedom and human emancipation conferred a character of overcoming the capitalist sociability through its reproduction of the relations of exploitation, domination and oppression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the philosophical foundations and the modus operandi of the streaming services automated music recommendation systems which are becoming increasingly important for music consumption. In the first part of the text, we present the definition of taste according to three different intellectual traditions: philosophy, sociology and neurology. The goal is to stress differences between those approaches and to suggest that the neurological approach assumes prominence among digital technology developers. In the second part, we discuss the main automatic recommendation methods, developed with the support of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Finally, we comment on the possible consequences of the intensive use of AI for music distribution through streaming services, from the communications standpoint, focusing on circulation and consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Our investigation aims to propose a brief reflection on Book VI of De musica (387-391) by Agostinho de Hipona. In the light of philosophy, it is intended to submit the main lines of arguments on the unfolding of the soul in its itinerary to God, in analogy to the rhythms and harmonies of musical art. Evidently, the meeting between Hellenistic philosophy and Christianity in the early days of Patristics took place through many resources, but with some acquiescence on the part of Latin Patrology. In this context, the thought of Augustine of Hippo must be considered a reference for the synthesis of Hellenistic philosophy in the Latin tradition. There is no doubt that the Neoplatonic reference was singularly present in Augustine's philosophy, not only as an ingredient of his intellectual and spiritual evolution, culminating in his conversion, but it was also the instrument by which, and exclusively through it, his thought has formed. In fact, it is clear that Augustine's thought is a synthesis of Hellenistic culture incorporated in Latin times, although this characteristic is not duly explicit in some of his works and in the course of his history, requiring a closer and more accurate examination of our interpretations. In the course of reading book VI of De musica we can identify three important aspects: i) At first, Augustine proposes the unfolding of the soul based on the sensations. The path of reflection runs through the education of the senses in order to achieve the perceptual-sensorial transcendentalization, so that, Augustine intends to demonstrate that the movements and rhythms of music are in analogy to the rhythms of the soul driven by a natural desire to contemplate God; ii) In order to carry out this path of soul ascension, Augustine identifies in Neoplatonism the notion of spiritualization as an essential activity of the soul's intimate life, in such a way that the dialogue is impregnated with the Plotinian speculation about the concept of unity, order and being, always related to the notion of God as ineffable; iii) The Augustinian assumption in discovering bodily harmonies in the soul through sensations, sounds and words in analogy to eternal harmony, supports, in a way, his notion of invisible perfection of God as the one who reveals himself to us in created things. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes some of the reasons that led to the adoption of vernacular languages as philosophical languages between the 14th and 17th centuries in France and Italy. The article focuses on Descartes's Discours de la méthode (1637), Sperone Speroni's Dialogo delle lingue (1542) and Dante Alighieri's Convivio (circa 1304-1307). The three works not only chose to write philosophy in a language with no philosophical tradition, but also offered a philosophical rationale for this decision. The article exposes and analyzes that set of arguments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is result of the one a sequence of interviews achieved with the master ambassador Antonio Francisco, of the Companhia de Reis Santa Luzia, thus as the work of the participant observation of the journey of Kings 2007/ 2008 how achieved close the Company in the district of a city the municipality of Londrina/ PR. Have for objective to sight in the paper something's elements how defined the popular Catholicism traditional Brazilian, in your expression cultural, configured across of this perspective the formation of yours rituals-masters and the structure ritualistic and organizational the journey of Kings of this cultural universe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article on reformed theology Anglada deals with the reformed doctrine of the supreme authority of Scripture. Assuming a theological, ecclesiastical and liturgical crisis in modern evangelicalism, particularly in Brazil, he summarizes the biblical basis of the doctrine, and alerts against the old and new tendencies of usurping or limiting the authority of God's Word. Among the usurping tendencies against the authority of Scripture, he includes the ecclesiastical traditions degenerated into traditionalism, emotions degenerated into emotionalism, and reason degenerated into rationalism. Among the limiting tendencies he mentions the liberal negation of the very foundation of Biblical authority, the neo-orthodox confusion concerning the certainty of the authority of Scripture, and the neo-evangelical limitation of the scope of its authority. He concludes the article by calling attention to the importance of the doctrine in the sixteenth-century Reformation and by suggesting that if the modern evangelical faith and ecclesiastical practices were subjected to the scrutiny of this doctrine, a considerable number of doctrines and ecclesiastical practices would have to be rejected, and a new reformation would take place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]