Beginning and perspectives of Bioethics in Brazil and in Portugal
Amanda Guedes dos REIS, Carlos Manuel Costa GOMES, Marta SAUTHIER, André Marcelo Machado SOARES
Original title: Origem e perspectivas da Bioética no Brasil e em Portugal
Published in
Keywords: Bioethics, Health, Humanist perspective, Philosophical perspective, Practical wisdom.
In this article, result of an academic partnership between the Anna Nery School of Nursing from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Bioethics Institute of the Catholic University of Portugal of the Porto, the beginning of Bioethics is addressed and its impact in Brazil and Portugal countries is presented. The Brazilian and the Portuguese bioethical thoughts are discussed and a prospecting of the future of Bioethics journey in both countries is made.
The difficulty in distinguishing beauty and art in some medieval expressions
Susana BEATRIZ VIOLANTE
Original title: La dificultad en la distinción de belleza y de arte en algunas expresiones medievales
Published in The Medieval Aesthetics
Keywords: Art, Beauty, Perspective in art, Philosophical perspective, Ugliness.
To flee from common places, it would be necessary to determine what is understood as beauty, distinguishing how this concept has been modified in relation to geographical space, periods of historical time and what the different centers of power have instituted as such. Something extremely complex because, fundamentally, I consider that it cannot be defined beyond than what generates an “aesthetic” tension that drives us to say: how nice!!! How ugly!!! But this “tension” is crossed by a whole discourse that makes us distinguish the beautiful and the ugly as such. What do we think of art in the medieval period? Because classical Greek art is still “seen” in many works, especially from Renaissance, modern and even contemporary, but we do not find the different perspective with which the medieval has expressed itself, with that recognition - and it does not seem to interest too much “See” - although, its superposition of close and distant planes - I - dare to find them stylized? in some of Picasso’s, Kandinsky’s, Magritte’s works ... I know it might seem “crazy” what I say, but here go certain images.
