O presente artigo pretende sobretudo oferecer uma retrospectiva sucinta e ao mesmo tempo abrangente da recepção, da presença, da interpretação e da divulgação do pensamento português nos primeiros cinquenta números da revista Philosophica, fundada em 1993 e editada pelo Departamento e pelo Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa. A organização do artigo visa destacar a contribuição do periódico para a actividade e o estudo de pensadores portugueses e para o aprofundamento de questões e temas que se diriam típicos da reflexão filosófica lusa e lusófona. Entre as coordenadas dentro das quais o trabalho se desenvolve eis, por um lado, a história e as especificidades programáticas da revista, e por outro, o debate sobre o haver Filosofia em Portugal vs. haver uma Filosofia Portuguesa, com a vibrante e desassossegante carga crítica que esta questão traz consigo.

In this paper we will revisit the theme of Philosophy teaching in its fundamental debate about what it is and its possibility. It is not intended here to inventory everything that has already been thought about this question, nor would it be possible, but rather to think of it in dialogue with what some authors (but could be others) thought and wrote. Philosophy does not disassociate itself from the act. It is done and it is possible to teach to do it because deep down it is a process that is learned in the measure that is cultivated, that is cultivated in the measure in which one lives and practices. This is the meaning given to the reflection proposed here.

The following essay presents an analysis on Kantian aesthetics, more specifically directed to the concept of the sublime. We begin with a broad approach to the nature of Kantian aesthetics – in relation to aesthetic-reflexive judgements. Only after this brief context we move on to define the sublime following Immanuel Kant’s approach, doing so in contrast with the concept of beauty – the same way Kant clarified. Sublimity incurs from an inability of human imagination and understanding to comprehend certain phenomena, whose magnitude is beyond us and petrifies us; there is, however some moral potential in this sentiment. In conclusion, we propose a more contemporary reflection on the sublime.

This paper evokes the life and the work of Vasco de Magalhães-Vilhena as a communist militant and a Marxist philosopher. These two dimensions are inseparable in his life’s exemplariness as much as in the intensive intellectual activity through which he influenced the philosophical culture of his lifetime as much as in the writings he left to the further generations. The PCP, having donated the Magalhães-Vilhena Library to the School of Arts and Humanities (Faculdade de Letras) of the University of Lisbon, recognizes the value of this homage in the school where the foregoing professor lectured and fi nished his teaching practice.