The basic aim of this thesis is to investigate the concepts of image in Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and of form in Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961). Bearing in mind the trajectory that these concepts play on both authors’ ...

This thesis investigates the relation between the concepts of nature and nurture (culture) in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941). Starting from the diagnosis of the "crisis of philosophy" at the turn of the ...

Notre hypothèse de travail est de comprendre la formulation du concept de l'homme en trois périodes différentes de l'œuvre de Rousseau. Le point de départ est la comparaison entre l'homme sauvage et l'homme social; dans ...

This work aims to discuss how, by an articulation between tree essays of Górgias, "On Nature", "Encomium of Helen" and "Defense of Palamedes", we can see logos as a central but even so problematic concept meaning, depending ...

Aristotle's account of sensation starts from two main sense objects that actualize the senses, namely, those proper to each sense and those common to all the senses. Proper as color to sight, sound to hear, and so on; and ...

The present dissertation is an analysis of the relation between consciousness and exteriority in the second work of philosopher Henri Bergson, Matéria e memoria, 1986. The relations between psychology and metaphysics lead ...

This thesis establish the infrastructure of logos in philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. Firstly we approach de structural aspects of perceptual logic to, utterly, confront this with a general reformulation of sense based on the ...