Vol. 10 No. 2 (2019)

In this second edition of 2019, Inquietude journal is pleased to present to the public an elaborate and important collection of works that cover several areas and centuries of the History of Philosophy. In the article by Rodrigo Trindade Nascimento, entitled The philosophical and scientific base in the formation and development of the Vienna Circle, the philosophy of the nineteenth century is taken into account from the thematisation of philosophical issues that contributed to the consolidation of the Vienna Circle.

The nineteenth century is still contemplated by Yago Barreto Bezerra's article The illusions and Marx: A brief essay about the implications of materialism in the formation of the Marxian social theory as non-deterministic, in which the author argues against a finalist reading of Marx’s work, thus refusing that Marx has reduced human history to a necessary end, that is, communism. Still in the nineteenth century of the History of Philosophy, we can read questions concerning the philosophy of language in the writing of Leonardo Magalde Ferreira, The role of metaphor in Nietzsche and Bergson, that explores the prominent place that the theme of metaphor has gained in Nietzsche's and Bergson's philosophy, serving them as an instrument for a critique of traditional metaphysics and representational powers of reality by human beings, as well as the importance that metaphor has from the formal point of view of the philosophy of these thinkers, in so far as it enabled them a unique way of philosophizing. The problems of Nietzsche’s philosophy and, consequently, of the XIX century, are still present in Leonardo Camargo da Silva’s review Nietzsche and Nietzscheanism: Thematic constellations of the academic reception of Nietzschean philosophy, on the book Nietzscheanismo [Brazilian version for Understanding Nietzscheanism (2011)] by Ashley Woodward (2016).

Looking at the history of philosophy retrospectively from the nineteenth century, Inquietude still counts in its current collection with articles by Loryne Viana de Oliveira and Adriano Sotero Bin. Oliveira’s article, Skepticism and non-skepticism: David Hume and the old Problem of Induction, elucidates the challenge introduced by Hume to modern epistemology when it inaugurates the famous Induction Problem, and also elucidates some possible skeptical and non-critical readings of this famous problem. In addition to philosophical questions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this collection offers readers of Inquietude political questions of Aristotle’s philosophy in Adriano Bin’s article, Philia and polis in Aristotle: A stimulus to tolerance, that discusses the concepts of friendship and politics in the Stagirite's philosophy and its relationship with the theme of tolerance, a theme that is so dear to the current moment lived in Brazil and the general context of contemporary societies in their plurality and diversity.

Before we leave you, readers, free to enjoy the present textual collection offered by Inquietude, an important warning. In 2020, the Journal of philosophy students of the Federal University of Goiás completes ten years of existence and publications that have been disseminating, from the philosophical production of undergraduates, masters and doctoral students, philosophical knowledge essential to the development and future of the country. To celebrate this special year, the editorial team of Inquietude will present a special edition containing a dossier on the works of Marx and Tocqueville, and also an interview with Heitor Pagliaro, who has been working as a member of the editorial board of the journal during these ten years, on the history, importance and impact of Inquietude and other journals directed by philosophy students in Brazil.

Sincerely,

The Editorial Team of Inquietude.

Arthur Brito Neves
Eduardo Emanuel Ferreira Leal