I – GENERAL INFORMATION
− ANTÓNIO MANUEL DE ASSUNÇÃO BRAZ TEIXEIRA
− Born in Lisbon on 21.07.1936
− Resident at Rua Estêvão Lopes, 21, 2795-018 Linda-a-Velha - Oeiras
− Law degree from the University of Lisbon (1958)
− Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon (2006)
II – FUNCTIONS CARRIED OUT
− Senior Inspection Technician for the Development Plan (January 1959 to February 1961);
− Jurist in the Centre for Fiscal Studies in the Ministry of Finance (February 1961 to December 1969);
− Administrator and Vice-President of the Mozambique Credit Institute (December 1969 to December 1971);
− Provincial Secretary for Planning and Finance for the Government of Mozambique (December 1971 to July 1973);
− Senior Inspector for the Interior (June 1973 to June 1979);
− Administrator of the Portuguese Financial Society (October 1973 to June 1979);
− Delegate to the Board of National Salvation with the Overseas Ministry (April/May, 1974);
− Member of the Installed Commission for the Institute for Economic Cooperation (February 1976 to January 1980);
− Secretary of State of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (January 1980 to January 1981);
− Secretary of State for Culture (January to September 1981);
− Director of the D. Maria II National Theatre (June 1982 to December 1985);
− Member of the Editorial Council for the National Press – Official Mint (1982-1992);
− Member of the Commission for Fiscal Reform (1984-1988);
− Vice-President of the Management Board of R.T.P. – Portuguese Radio & Television (December 1985 to February 1992);
− President of the National Commission for the European Year of Cinema and Television (1987-1989);
− Member of the Scientific Board of the Theatre and Cinema School of the Polytechnic Institute in Lisbon (1988-1993);
− President (representing R.T.P.) of the Director’s Board for the organisation of Portuguese Language Television (September 1991 to February 1992);
− President of the Board of Directors of the National Press – Official Mint (since 10th April 1992);
− Attending professor at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon (November 1977 to March 1991);
− Associate professor at the Autónoma University of Lisbon (1986-1990 and 1993-2006) and at the Internacional University (1987-1990);
− Professor at the University of Évora (1999-2001);
− Permanent professor at the Lusófona University (since 2005).
− Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (2007)
III – OTHER ACTIVITIES
− Permanent member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, honorary member of the Portuguese History Academy, correspondent member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy, partner in the Scientific Society of the Portuguese Catholic University, of the Portuguese Philosophy Society, of the Historic Independence of Portugal Society, member of the International Seminary of Nemesian Studies (Ponta Delgada), of the Centre for Anterian Studies (Vila do Conde), of the History of Culture Centre of the New University of Lisbon, of the Institute of the History of Law and Political Thought in the Faculty of Law of Lisbon, of the Judicial Inter-disciplinary Institute of the Porto Faculty of Law, of the Permanent Counselling Commission of the Centre of Studies for Portuguese Thought of the Portuguese Catholic University – Porto Regional Centre, and of the Editing Board for Análise and Reflexão magazines;
− Founding partner and vice-president of the Board of the Portuguese- Brazilian Institute of Philosophy;
− Director of NOMOS magazine – Portuguese Magazine of Law and State Philosophy (1986-1989);
− Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique, knight of the Order of the British Empire and holder of the Order of Cruzeiro do Sul (Brazil).
IV – PRINCIPAL PUBLISHED WORKS
– His scientific and university activity has been divided between Law and Philosophy, with his speculative and intellectual interests, in regard to the latter, distributed into judicial philosophy, the study of Portuguese, Galician and Brazilian philosophical thought and judicial philosophy, of the philosophy of nostalgia in Portugal, in Galicia and in Brazil, of reflection on religion, the sacred, the myth and the symbol and on ethics and on Iberian and Latin American philosophy.
a) – Law
1. Books
− A relação jurídica fiscal, Lisbon, CEF, 1962
− O Imposto Profissional, Lisbon, CEF, 1964
− Princípios de Direito Fiscal, vol. I, Lisbon, Ática, 1966; 2nd. ed., Coimbra, Almedina, 1979; 3a. ed., Coimbra, id., 1985; vol. II, Coimbra, id., 1986
− A responsabilidade fiscal das pessoas colectivas e dos seus orgãos, Lisbon, CEF, 1967
− Anteprojecto de Código dos Impostos sobre o Rendimento - Book I - General Part (in collaboration with Fernando Pessoa Jorge), Lisbon, CEF, 1968
− Questões de Direito Fiscal, Lisbon, CEF, 1969
− Introdução ao Direito Financeiro, Lisbon, Academic Association of the Faculty of Law, 1980
− Finanças Públicas e Direito Financeiro, Lisbon, Academic Association of the Faculty of Law, 1990
2. Articles
− Natureza jurídica das contribuições para a Previdência, CEF, Lisbon, 1983
− Conceito e natureza jurídica do Orçamento, Lisbon, CEF, 1993
b) – Philosophy 1. Books
− A filosofia jurídica portuguesa actual, Lisbon, 1959 (Artur Malheiros Prize for Judicial Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon)
− O pensamento filosófico-jurídico português, Lisbon, ICALP, 1983
− Filosofia da saudade (anthology organised with Afonso Botelho), Lisbon, INCM, 1986
− Sentido e valor do direito. Introdução à filosofia jurídica, Lisbon, INCM, 1990; 2nd edition, reviewed and enlarged, Lisbon, id., 2000;
3rd ed., newly reviewed and enlarged, id. 2006
− Caminhos e figuras da filosofia do direito luso-brasileira, Lisbon, Academic Association of the Faculty of Law, 1991; 2nd edition, reviewed and enlarged, Lisbon, Novo Imbondeiro, 2002
− Filosofia jurídica portuguesa contemporânea (anthology), Porto, Re. 1992
− Deus, o mal e a saudade. Estudos sobre o pensamento português e luso-brasileiro, Lisbon, Lusíada Foundation, 1993
− O pensamento filosófico de Gonçalves de Magalhães, Lisbon, Portuguese-Brazilian Institute of Philosophy, 1994
− O espelho da razão. Estudos sobre o pensamento filosófico brasileiro, Londrina, published by the University of Londrina, 1997
− Ética, filosofia e religião, Estudos sobre o pensamento português, galego e brasileiro, Évora, Pendor, 1997
− Formas e percursos da razão atlântica. Estudos de filosofia luso- -brasileira, Londrina, published by the State University of Londrina, 2001
− História da filosofia do direito portuguesa, Lisbon, Ed. Caminho, 2005.
− A filosofia da saudade, Lisbon, Quidnovi, 2006
− Diálogos e perfis, Lisbon, Europress, 2006
− Sentido e Valor do Direito. Introdução à Filosofia Jurídica, 3rd ed., newly reviewed and enlarged, Lisbon, INCM, 2006.
− Conceito e Formas de Democracia em Portugal e outros Estudos de História das Ideias, Lisbon, Sílabo, 2008.
− O Essencial sobre a Filosofia Portuguesa (Sécs. XIX e XX), Lisbon, INCM, 2008.
2. Various articles
− A "guerra justa" em Portugal, "Esmeraldo", Lisbon, 1955
− Os percursores do corporativismo português, “Esmeraldo”, 1956.
− Filosofia do direito, "Portuguese Philosophy Magazine", Braga, 1960
− O pensamento associacionista e corporativo em Portugal no séc.
XIX, "I National Debate on Labour, Corporate Organisation and Social Provision", Lisbon, 1961
− O ideal português do direito, in "O que é o ideal português", Lisbon, 1962
− Lembrança de Matias Aires, “Brazilian Philosophy Magazine”, São Paulo, 1964
− A "Filosofia da Existência" de Domingos Tarrozo, "Espiral", Lisbon, 1965
− Aproximação do pensamento filosófico de Delfim Santos, "Espiral", 1966
− O pensamento filosófico de Cunha Seixas, "Brazilian Philosophy Magazine", 1971
− Miguel Reale, historiador das ideias, "Brazilian Philosophy Magazine ", 1994
− O pantiteísmo de Cunha Seixas, "Portuguese Philosophy Magazine", 1995
− A filosofia de Cunha Seixas - lecture presented to the Class of Letters of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon on July 27, 1995
− Sagrado, mito e símbolo no pensamento de Almada Negreiros,
“International Debate on Almada Negreiros”, Porto, 1996, published in the respective “Minutes”, Porto, 1998.
− A teoria do mito na filosofia de Afonso Botelho, “Colóquio sobre o pensamento e a obra de Afonso Botelho”, Lisbon, 1997, published in
“Theorems of Philosophy”, Porto, 2000
− A “Teodiceia” de Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira, lecture presented to the Class of Letters of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon on June 26, 1997
− Profecia e escatologia no pensamento de António Vieira – conference in the Congress of the 3rd Centenary of Padre António Vieira, Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, November 1997, published in the respective minutes
− O idealismo ético de Antero de Quental, “Seminar on Literature and the History of Ideas” Federal University of Fluminense, Niterói, 1997 (for publication)
− Deus e o sagrado no pensamento de Renato Cirell Czerna, “Anto”, no. 3, Spring 1998
− Sobre o juízo jurídico-normativo, “Magazine of the Lisbon Faculty of Law”, special tribute edition to Prof. João Lumbrales (2000)
− A evolução do pensamento teodiceico de Sampaio Bruno,
“Convergência Lusíada”, Rio de Janeiro, 1998
− O primeiro estádio da filosofia anteriana, “Anterian Studies”, no. 2, Vila do Conde, 1998
− O sagrado no pensamento de Vicente Ferreira da Silva, “V Debate, Tobias Barreto”, Braga and Viana do Castelo, 1998, published in the respective minutes, Lisbon, 2001
− A experiência religiosa no pensamento de Miguel Reale, “Minutes of the VI Brazilian Congress of Philosophy”, S. Paulo, 1999
− O sagrado e a experiência religiosa na “Escola de São Paulo”,
“Cultura”, vol. XII, 2000-2001
− Do “saber do coração” à razão atlântica – lecture presented to the Debate on the 500th anniversary of the Discovery of Brazil, organised by the Lusíada Foundation, Lisbon, 1999, published in the respective
“Minutes”, Lisbon, 2001
− O pensamento filosófico de Vicente Ferreira da Silva, “Reflexão”, Campinas, 1999 and “Análise”, Porto, no. 21, 2000
− O mal na mais recente filosofia portuguesa, in “Portuguese Philosophy Magazine”, 2001
− A ideia de Deus e a religião em José Régio – “International Debate on José Régio”, Porto, 2001
− O conceito de razão na filosofia portuguesa do séc. XX, “Seminar on the problem of reason in Portuguese philosophy”, Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, 2202
− O conceito de razão na filosofia luso-brasileira do séc. XX,
“Minutes of the VII Brazilian Congress of Philosophy”, João Pessoa, 2002
− O ateísmo ético e cientista de Basílio Teles, “Theorems of Philosophy”, no. 5, 2002
− Consenso, verdade e direito, “Minutes of the Debate on Consensus, Authority and Law”, University of Minho, Coimbra, 2003
− La filosofia della “Scuola di Oporto”, lecture given to the Portuguese Institute of Santo António, Roma, February 2003
− A teoria do mito no pensamento de António Quadros, “Debate on António Quadros, IADE, Lisbon, 2003
− “Um fidalgo do pensamento”, “Theorems of Philosophy”, no. 8, 2003
− Saudade de D. Garcia-Sabell, “Theorems of Philosophy”, no. 9, 2004
− O sagrado e o mito no pensamento de Vergílio Ferreira, “Vergílio Ferreira International Debate on the fiftieth anniversary of “Manhã Submersa”, Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, March 2004
− O fundamento axiológico do direito: justiça e direito natural no pensamento português contemporâneo, “Habent sua Fata Libelli.
Homage to Fernando Guedes”, Portuguese History Academy, Lisbon, 2004
− A ideia de democracia em Cabral de Moncada, “Brazilian Philosophy Magazine”, no. 218, 2005
− Lei, direito e justiça em Amador Arraiz, “D. Frei Amador Arraiz International Debate”, Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon, November 2004
− Situação de Locke no jusnaturalismo, lecture presented to the Class of Letters of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, May 2005
− Direito natural e política em Tomás António Gonzaga, “Natural Law, Justice and Politics”, Porto, 2005, vol. I
− A teoria do mito no pensamento de José Marinho, “Rethinking José Marinho”, Porto, 2005
− Em torno do pensamento estético de Álvaro Ribeiro, “Debate on the Centenary of the Birth of Álvaro Ribeiro”, Faculty of Letters of Porto, December 2005
− A experiência jurídica na filosofia de Miguel Reale, “Brazilian Philosophy Magazine”, no. 222, 2006
− Realismo, personalismo, jusnaturalismo no debate jurídico contemporâneo (inédito), 2006
− Agostinho da Silva e a “Escola de São Paulo”, “Agostinho da Silva and Portuguese-Brazilian thought”, Lisbon, 2006
− Sentido e valor ontológico da linguagem em Vilém Flusser e José Enes, “Paths of thought. Studies in tribute to Professor José Enes”, University of Azores, 2006
− Religião, símbolo e mito no pensamento de Teófilo Braga, “Studies in tribute to Ruy de Albuquerque”, Lisbon Faculty of Law, 2006
− Agostinho da Silva e o pensamento russo: algumas convergências e afinidades, “Agostinho da Silva, thinker about the world”, Lisbon, 2006
− Ecos da doutrina kantiana do direito no pensamento luso- -brasileiro, “Kantian philosophy of Law and Politics”, Lisbon, 2007
− Iluminismo luso-brasileiro?, “Iluminismo Luso-Brasileiro”, Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, 2007
− Conceito e formas de democracia, em Portugal, na primeira metade do séc. XX, “Minutes of the VIII Debate, Antero de Quental”, São João d’el Rei, 2007
− Agostinho da Silva: de l’“École de Porto” à l’“École de São Paulo”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, 2007
− A ética neo-utilitarista de Mário Sottomayor Cardia, “Prelo”, 3rd series, no. 4, 2007
− A ontologia anteriana, “Anterian Studies”, no. 13/14, 2007
− A ideia de Deus e a religião na filosofia brasileira do séc. XIX, Lisbon Faculty of Letters, 2007
− Pensamento russo e pensamento português contemporâneo:
afinidades e convergências, Lisbon Faculty of Letters, 2007
− Delfim Santos e Sant’Anna Dionísio: afinidades e diferença, Municipal Library of Vila Real, 2007
− A superação do positivismo na filosofia jurídica ibérica, na primeira metade do séc. XX, Lusófona University, Porto, 2007
− Tendências gerais da filosofia portuguesa entre 1850 e 2000, Portuguese-Galician-Brazilian Congress of Philosophy, Porto Regional Centre of the Portuguese Catholic University, 2007
− Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira e a filosofia brasileira, Brazilian Academy of Letters, 2007
− Portugal como enigma, “History of Ideas Magazine”, no. 27, Coimbra, 2007
− A estética na “Escola de São Paulo”, International Congress on the Portuguese Language, Philosophy and Literature in the Portuguese Language, Rio de Janeiro, 2007
− Delfim Santos e a “Renovação Democrática”, Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, 2007
− A onto-antropologia do jovem Fernando Gil, “Passionate Reason, Tribute to Fernando Gil”, Lisbon, INCM, 2008
− Collaborated on História do Pensamento Filosófico Português, with chapters Filosofia jurídica medieval (vol. I, 1999), A filosofia jurídica do Renascimento e do período barroco (vol. II, 2001), A filosofia jurídica da época das Luzes (vol. III, 2001), Do Sensismo ao Espiritualismo, Manuel Ferreira Deusdado and A Filosofia do Direito do séc. XIX (vol. IV, 2004), Álvaro Ribeiro, António Quadros, Afonso Botelho and Filosofia do Direito (vol. V, 2000)
− Prefaced the 4th edition of Defesa do Racionalismo ou Análise da Fé, by Pedro Amorim Viana, 1982, vol. II of the Dispersos (Philosophy and Science), by Leonardo Coimbra, 1987, As Filosofias nacionais, by António Paim, Londrina, 1997, Imaginação e Finitude e outros ensaios, by Eduardo Abranches de Soveral, 1999, Vigência e Temporalidade do Direito e outros ensaios, by António José Brandão, 2000, Cartas de Álvaro Ribeiro para Delfim Santos, 2001, the 4th edition of Confissão dum Homem Religioso, by José Régio, 2001, Dialéctica das consciências e outros ensaios, by Vicente Ferreira da Silva, 2002, Para a História da Filosofia do Direito em Portugal, by Luís Cabral de Moncada, 2003, Percursos de História das Ideias, by José Esteves Pereira, 2004, Filosofia da História do Cristianismo, by Joaquim Maria Rodrigues de Brito, 2004, Teodiceia, by Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira, 2005, Discursos Político-Morais, by Feliciano Joaquim de Sousa Nunes, 2006, Ensaios Filosóficos, by Basílio Teles, 2006, Todo o Teatro, vol. II, by Luiz-Francisco Rebello, 2006 and the 2nd edition of Racionalismo, Consciência Metodológica, 2007, by Mário Sottomayor Cardia
c) - Literature and Theatre
− Duas obras fundamentais da moderna ficção brasileira, "Rumo", Lisbon, 1962
− Breve apresentação da literatura galega, "Espiral", Lisbon, 1964
− Possibilidade e realidade do teatro português, "Espiral", 1965
− Sobre o teatro de José Régio, "Espiral", 1965
− O mito de Inês de Castro no teatro português, D. Maria II National Theatre, Lisbon, 1982
− Breve reflexão sobre a tragédia, D. Maria II National Theatre, Lisbon, 1983
− A cultura portuguesa actual. Um breve panorama, "Contemporary Debate in Portugal ", Porto Alegre, 1991
− Situação de Alfredo Cortez na dramaturgia portuguesa, Viana do Castelo, 1993
− "Portugal", de Almada Negreiros, uma obra matricial, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 1993
− Sobre uma desconhecida versão cénica de “Jacob e o Anjo” – in the
“Bulletin of Regian Studies”, Vila do Conde, 2001
− As tardes transfiguradas. Breve reflexão sobre a poesia de Saul Dias, “Minutes of the Debate on a tribute to Júlio/Saul Dias on the centenary of his birth, Fernando Pessoa University, Porto, 2003
− Breve apontamento sobre o teatro de Norberto Ávila, “Letters Forum”, no. 8, 2003
− O teatro de José Régio, preface to José Régio, Teatro, Lisbon, INCM, 2005
− O teatro de Miguel Torga: do ruralismo ao simbolismo, “Debate on a Mortal who Bent but did not Break – Miguel Torga”, Fernando Pessoa University, Porto, January 2005
− Sobre o teatro de Luiz Francisco Rebello, lecture presented to the Class of Letters of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, February 2005
− O teatro de Sartre revisitado, “Jean-Paul Sartre International Debate – A Culture of Distinctness. Philosophy and Literature”, New University of Lisbon, October 2005
− Entre Orfeu e Job. A antropologia poética de Miguel Torga, Minutes of the II International Congress on Miguel Torga, Coimbra, 2007
d) - Translations
− Mr. Deman – God and Evil, Lisbon, 1961
− Pietro Pavan – The Reasons for Democracy, Lisbon, 1965
− M. Merleau-Ponty – Elegy for Philosophy, Lisbon, 1966
− Pope John XXIII – Private Diary (in collaboration with Alexandre Nascimento and Luís Braz Teixeira), Lisbon, 1966
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