http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/19691 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:50:49 GMT 2026-06-11T16:50:49Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86347 Título: Do conceito de história à totalidade provisória em O Capital de Marx: limites e possibilidades do método Autor(es): Almeida, Rodrigo Cavalcante de Abstract: The present research takes as scope to analyze two fundamental concepts of Marx's method in the work The Capital. They are the concepts of History and Provisional Totality; defending the thesis that the development of the first concept or conception of History is configured, in part, in the second concept of Provisional Totality, which we consider to be a fundamental analytical key for understanding the work Capital and, therefore, its method. To this end, the paper is divided into two parts: the first part deals with the formation of the concept of History in Marx, demonstrating the processual and non-linear character of this concept in the work of the German thinker, from the works of youth, where we argue that there is not yet a concept of history in the author, but notions of history , based on a realistic posture and a keen notion of historicity, passing through the German Ideology, a turning point in Marx's work, and which marks the beginning of his conception of history, but not its completion, until the development of the critique of the lack of historicity of political economy. In the second part, which focuses on Capital, we will investigate the concept of Provisional Totality, implicit in the work. In fact, it is the very method of The Capital, which is nothing more than Marx's attempt, perhaps partly unconscious, to combine a dialectical presentation of the categories of the capitalist mode of production with a synthesis of the concrete historical process. In other words, a synthesis between a materialist dialectic and an open-ended conception of history, articulated in a totality that will therefore be provisional. It derives from this both the concept of law and the categories of social averages, making it possible to understand the various levels of abstraction between the three books, while expressing the limits and scope of Marx's method. Tipo: Tese Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86347 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86146 Título: Consciências coletivas: uma abordagem gradualista do monismo protopsíquico Autor(es): Fonseca, Anderson Luiz do Vale Abstract: The hypothesis that Collective Consciousnesses exist in the natural world challenges the assumption that consciousness is phenomenally determinate, since such forms would be in a gray area of phenomenal unification. This point of view, once its reasonableness is accepted, is in accordance with psychophysical gradualism, according to which consciousness is a vague property of biological organization. On this basis, we propose that Panprotopsychist Dual- Aspect Monism admits that subjective experience comes in degrees, correlated with the arrangement of the physical parts of a living system. Accordingly, there would be non- conscious, borderline, and conscious forms. The colony, in this case, is examined as a spatially distributed organism that exhibits a partially integrated experience. To support this argument, we investigate the Phenomenal Binding Problem to determine which physical process makes it possible for consciousnesses to be combined into an integrated whole. In addressing this issue, we argue that the synchronization of electromagnetic fields constitutes the physical substrate that enables the combination of the experiences of the colony’s components. The analysis of biological models, such as bryozoans and siphonophores, leads to the recognition of an evident relationship between the synchronization of (neuro)electrical oscillations and collective sensitivity. We conclude that distributed consciousness is not merely an analogical description, but a natural occurrence. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86146 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85295 Título: O pressuposto estético-linguístico do conhecimento: a crítica epistemológica de Walter Benjamin no Caderno N das passagens Autor(es): Silva, Paulo Victor de Albuquerque Abstract: This thesis investigates Walter Benjamin's critique of knowledge, focusing on the “N Convolute – Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Progress” from “Das Passagen-Werk”. It proceeds from the hypothesis that the Benjaminian epistemology is grounded in a dual and inseparable aesthetic-linguistic premise, according to which historical knowledge emerges from the correlation between sensory apprehension (aesthetics) and interpretative understanding (language). The investigation is developed along three main axes: 1) the expansion of the concept of aesthetics beyond the philosophy of art, situating it as a cognitive dimension of sensory experience in the modern metropolis; 2) the formulation of a Benjaminian philosophy of language that articulates semantics, pragmatics, and materialist hermeneutics; and 3) the immanent analysis of “Convolute N” where this dual foundation is consolidated as the basis of the historical materialist method. In its conclusion, the study critically situates Benjamin’s contribution within the 20th-century epistemological landscape, establishing a brief critical dialogue with three paradigms – the paradigm of consciousness, logical positivism, and orthodox materialism – re-evaluated through the aesthetic-linguistic prism, culminating in the formulation of the “philological historical materialism” as a theoretical synthesis that integrates historicity, language, and sensibility. It concludes that the epistemological turn operated by Benjamin – by decentralizing the transcendental subject and rooting knowledge in sensible-linguistic material objectivity – offers an original paradigm for understanding both the 19th-century modernity and the cognitive impasses of the contemporary world. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85295 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84403 Título: A possibilidade de conhecimento na Filosofia Procleana Autor(es): Cunha, Suelen Pereira da Abstract: Characterized by circularity, Proclus’philosophy is grounded in unity as the first cause that is imparticipable and unknowable. Faced with this feature, the presente study adresses the problem of how it is possible to know the diferente hypostases, given that knowledge is defined as knowledge of causes, while the first cause itself is unknowable. Drawing on the selected theoretical framawork, the work unfolds over six chapters. The first explores Proclus’interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides, highlighting both differences and similarities, and showing how the Diadoch’s system takes shape from a logical dialogue. The second chapter deepens the central problema by examining the imparticipable and unknowable dimensions of the first cause, as well as the posible ways of speaking about and apprehending it. The chapter three focus on the hypostases of the noûs and the soul, outlining their fundamental categories, since upon them rest the essential modes of human being and knowing. In chapter, Proclus’system is presented as a network of relations grounded in the movement of procession. The four chapter turns to matter, treated as the final term of the Proclean system, and considers how it relates to the other hypostases, showing that it, too, is integrated into the movement os procession and thus has a share in the One. The fifth chapter adresses the types of apprehension of reality, emphasizing that knowledge constitutes a specific modes of apprehension linked to human participation in the soul and noûs. Finally, the sixth chapter examines the nature of the human, demonstrating that humanity encompasses all the hypostases and mirrors the entire Proclean system. By likeness, then, the human being is capable of knowing every hypostasis. In concludes that knowledge is indeed posible for human beings, precisely because of their likeness to each of the system’s hypostases. Tipo: Tese Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84403 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z