Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018)

In the current moment of Brazil, marked by the constant dismantling of democracy and education, restlessness is not only necessary, but what keeps us resistant and alive. In line with this objective, we present volume 9, number 1 of Inquietude. The art that composes the cover of this edition is the Metamorphosis of the aura and the instant's death in the metropolis, by Samuel Vaz.

In The need for civil laws as principle of justice in Hobbes' philosophy, Luana Broni de Araújo seeks to understand the need for civil law as the foundation of justice in Thomas Hobbes' political philosophy. Rafael Carneiro Rocha, in The question of the existence of God in Edith Stein, investigates the arguments Edith Stein uses to phenomenally demonstrate God's existence.

In Rome, Sparta and the formulation of the law, Henry Zanelato relates Machiavelli’s thought to reflections on the history of the Roman republic and the city of Sparta. By drawing a comparison between both cities, the author highlights their political potentialities and their defects in the formulation of laws. In The problem of the sovereign decision in the philosophy of the State on the perspective of the permanent state of exception, Lucas Carvalho Lima Teixeira, through the work of Agamben, elucidates the analyses of Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt about sovereignty and its close connection with the permanent state of exception.

Renzo Nery, in From the ontology of life to the ontology of death: Notes on Hans Jonas' organic philosophy, discusses the philosophical biology of Hans Jonas from a vitalistic perspective that opposes the modern dualism between organism and spirit. In A criticism of the ontological structure of language in Gadamer’s hermeneutics, Lucas Costa Roxo discusses the meaning of structure in the constitution of language, highlighting the ontological structures of language and their reflections on Gadamer’s hermeneutic thinking.

We take this opportunity to welcome the new members of Inquietude Editorial Team: Angélica Carvalho Santanna, Joaquim Onofre Silva Neto, Lorrayne Freitas and Rafael Arcanjo.

Aline Matos da Rocha