Coordination: Samuel Dimas

Presentation

Our research, stemming from a notion of Philosophy as a living practice, deeply inserted in the debates on literature, art, science and religion, focuses on the approach of the full human experience in the context of a Lusophone culture united by the same language and historical tradition.
Philosophical work is characterised by a creative search for the maximum meaning of existence and is translated into a natural language of not only logicalanalytical but also analogue-conjectural scope, in the accomplice relation between experience, emotion and intellection. For this reason, philosophy does not have its own literary genre and is present in every text whenever it performs this hermeneutic and meaning-fostering activity , by resorting to the natural or metaphorical language of poetic reason that seeks unity, not by reduction to a univocal plane, but by embracing the melting pot and the respect for diversity.
On the assumption that philosophical and theological-religious approaches do not have a specific literary genre and can be present in any given literary art and aesthetic representation, we aim to research and disseminate the Lusophone cultural creation in the scope of the relationships between philosophy, poetic-visual art, ethicalpolitical action and religious experience, paying particular attention to metaphysical, aesthetic, axiological and theological enhancements.

Projects and initiatives

• Global History of Portuguese Philosophy • Aesthetics in Portuguese Thought.
• Portuguese Philosophers for the XXI Century: anthology, study and translation (bilingual edition: Portuguese and English).
• Philosophy, Science and Religion in Contemporary Portuguese Culture.
• Treatises and other state of the art fundamental texts.