A famous painter of the 18th century, Joshua Reynolds presented throughout the years 1769-1790 speeches to the Royal Academy of Arts. In them, he exhibits a conception of painting that privileges historical paintings. However, Reynolds himself practices portrait painting. Analyzing to what extent the making of portraits does not contradict the argument that historical pictures are the ones that best represent the pictorial genre is what we seek to problematize in this text.

O objetivo do texto é discutir, a partir dos consagrados comentários de Gérard Lebrun e de Louis Guillermit, a importância sistemática da noção de apresentação na Crítica do juízo de Kant.

Um discípulo indisciplinado: Diderot leitor de Shaftesbury.

Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour é o segundo de um conjunto de seis tratados que Anthony Ashley Cooper publicou em 1711 com o nome de Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. O presente artigo busca analisar a estreita relação que os conceitos de “razão” e “zombaria” assumem nesta obra e a sua importância para a elaboração da noção shaftesburiana de “senso comum”. Reason and raillery in Shaftesbury Abstract Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom (...) of Wit and Humour is the second of a collection of six treatises which Anthony Ashley Cooper (the third Earl of Shaftesbury, 1671-1713) published in 1711 under the title of Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. This paper aims to analyze the close relation that the concepts of “reason” and “raillery” assume in the referred work and its importance to the elaboration of Shaftesburian notion of “common sense”. (shrink)