This paper aims to consider the specific excerpts in which Plato’s Timaeus was interpreted by the philosopher and Kabbalist Judah Abravanel, also known as Leo the Hebrew in his major work, the Dialogues of Love. From his experience of solitude lived while in exile in Italy, the Portuguese Jew composes a work written in a structure of double meanings, esoteric and exoteric, through which he interacts with the Neoplatonic Renaissance community of his time while communicating with the Kabbalistic tradition from (...) which he descended as a Sephardic. Interpreting Timaeus in the light of his ancestral cosmogony, Leo the Hebrew wants to prove that Plato was initiated into the teachings of Moses and, therefore, must be included as a Kabbalist. (shrink)

Usualmente se tem tratado a interação entre ceticismo e cristianismo apoiando-se em textos restritos ao contexto da modernidade, e, consequentemente, ao que veio a ser denominado ‘fideísmo’, que consiste em levantar dúvidas céticas acerca de toda e qualquer doutrina ou argumentação racional, com vistas a demonstrar as contradições da razão e propor como alternativa um salto para a fé. Contudo, esse trabalho pretende fomentar a investigação da influência da abordagem e da dýnamis cética pirrônica antiga — portanto, não dubitativa, mas (...) investigativa, aporética e suspensiva — sobre obras de importantes pensadores do cristianismo antigo, quais sejam: ‘ Refutação de todas as heresias ’, de Hipólito de Roma, e ‘ Preparação para o evangelho ’, de Eusébio de Cesareia. (shrink)

Tradução do quinto livro, passos 36-57 de Vidas, de Diógenes Laércio, tratando da vida de Teofrasto.

Translation of Diogenes Laërtius’ _Lives, _book 5, steps 36-57, dealing with the life of Theophrastus.

This paper consists in the presentation of the first version of the Greek/Portuguese translation of Sextus Empiricus’ _Outlines of Pyrrhonism _1.220-235, passage where Sextus traces a comparison between the Pyrrhonism and the Academic philosophy.