Presentation

Philosophy, in its history, belongs to the Humanity intellectual legacy and, therefore, as such, it is predisposed to different contemporary transformations and changes that comprehend all life sectors. Thus, it implies new comprehension instances in the ethics, politics, epistemological, and metaphysical fields. These transformations are correlated with the development of sciences and technologies, of social and political transformations, thus they suffer influences and influence the way how life, tradition and philosophy cross each other.

We need to deal with these problems based on the philosophical intellectual patrimony, looking for new ways of considering the human being self-comprehension with respect to their intellectual, scientific, and historical development. Thus, the Graduation Program in Philosophy of UFFS point of view does not aim to submit the study of History of Philosophy to contemporary problems and vice-versa. It is about considering the questions and issues based on the philosophical intellectual legacy, trying to understand and analyze the ruptures and continuities that mark the philosophical thinking that created the great philosophy works.

At the same time, this conception of philosophy describes and guides researches and investigations of the faculty of UFFS as it appears in the publications in Brazilian and international journals of philosophy and in the participations in Brazilian and international philosophical events. Such perspective allows us to divide the philosophy into two lines that congregate the researches and investigations developed by the Faculty: the research line 1, titled “Ethics and Political Philosophy”, which investigates the ethical and political aspects of human action and the inter-relationship between both fields. Line 2, titled “Knowledge, Language and Reality”, goes over the articulation between language and knowledge of reality. Here, we not only study the limits that language puts on knowledge of the real but also its opposite, i.e. in what way it is legitimate to infer a concrete description of reality based on the language.