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Hermeneutics, as a method in philosophical research, refined a large part of its tools in the 20th century thanks to the research of M. Heidegger, H.-G. Gadamer and P. Ricoeur. Heidegger had the courage to show that understanding and interpretation have an ontological dimension, not just a technical one; while Gadamer and Ricoeur were able to develop the consequences of that statement. This study echoes the recovery of the attestation phenomenon by Ricoeur, drawing attention to the importance of opinion and trust in the method that refers to the support of tradition.

According to the philosophy of Enlightenment, the problem of the autonomy of the human being is inseparable from its faculty of choice under the general and for the general. The idea here is the development of the human being, since this faculty of choice, in terms of its forms of social realization in the context of the interaction and conflict of us. In this sense, the problem of autonomy is necessarily linked to its practical realization, and for this reason the self-government of citizens constitutes the historical claim, in the 18th century, of that faculty of free choice against the arbitrariness and coercion of power. The philosophical consideration of moral and political autonomy is located in the field of the problem of the institution and rationality of the social and political order to the extent that it is assumed as a conscious construction of the human being itself. It is in accordance with the requirement of this link between the autonomy of the human being, as a self-determination being, and the problem of the rationality of the political order, that we want to demonstrate here that the philosophy of the Enlightenment entails a radical democratic content as the fundamental content of political modernity.

The main objective of this paper is to propose an intercultural subject model that functions as a contrast to the contemporary neoliberal subject. In order to do so, three specific topics are explained: 1) the concept of interculturality which León Olivé developed is used to postulate and elaborate an intercultural subject model; 2) the characteristics of a neoliberal social order that constitutes a specific kind of subject in conjunction with the way of such an order prevents the development of an intercultural one; 3) finally, the elements of an intercultural subject are addressed including the mention of the instruments that would allow its constitution.

My aim in this essay is to distinguish between genuine problems facing the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and difficulties that are more apparent than real. An intrinsic limitation of the philosophy of the Tractatus is that its approach to language, proposition, and thought is purely syntactic and does not suffice to account for various topics such as the functioning of names, quantification, and the theory of judgment. Subtly, Wittgenstein himself is forced into the realms of semantics. On this basis he tries to show that the Russellian theory of judgment is wrong, although the same criticism can be applied to himself. Finally, I take up the important issues of silence and the limits of meaningfulness as typical examples of pseudo-difficulties that leave Wittgenstein's book intact.

This text presents arguments in favor of the plausibility of the external realism defended by John Searle. To do this, the criticisms that Searle directs against the anti-realist positions that he considers most powerful, as well as against the weakest defenses of realism, are formulated first. Then the pair of transcendental arguments are exposed, one against phenomenalist idealism and the other against social constructivism, which Searle considers as the only ones that show the need for the formal ontological presupposition of external realism. At the end, some of the most prominent criticisms that both realist and anti-realist authors have developed against Searlean realism are mentioned.

Introduction: ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening first trimester obstetric emergency that occurs after fertilization when the blastocyst implants in a site other than the endometrium of the uterine cavity. No studies have been reported on the conservative management of ectopic pregnancy in Angola.Objective: to characterize the clinical factors of ectopic pregnancy in pregnant women attended at the Maternity of the General Hospital of Benguela, Angola.Methods: cross-sectional descriptive study in which a population of 50 pregnant women divided into two groups was studied: 20 pregnant women without ectopic pregnancy (40%) and 30 with ectopic pregnancy. The information was collected from the interview and physical examination of the patients and from the records in the clinical histories. Data were presented in absolute and relative frequencies and analyzed with the Chi-square homogeneity test.Results: the average age was 28.4 years, frequent in the range of 20-29 years with no significant differences between groups; 36.7% of patients with ectopic pregnancy had second parity unlike the other group where multiparity predominated (50%); lower abdominal pain as symptom (70%) and amenorrhea as sign (60%); conventional radical treatment (56.7%), location in the left horn (63.3%) and horn rupture as complication (50%) prevailed.Conclusions: the clinical characteristics of ectopic pregnancy in the Angolan pregnant women in the study are similar to those described in the medical literature reviewed.

Introduction: allergic conjunctivitis is a group of diseases that affect the conjunctival surface and are associated with type I hypersensitivity reactions generated by various allergens to which the affected individual reacts, after sensitization to it.Objective: to review this disease in order to gather criteria and treatments and to guide in the integral management of this health problem.Methods: a search was made with the keywords allergic conjunctivitis, hypersensitivity, diagnosis and treatment. Scientific journals were consulted in academic Google and in scientific literature databases.Conclusions: allergic conjunctivitis is a worldwide public health problem and is a very frequent disease that increases its incidence in combination with an increase in atopy. The importance of a good control of the ocular allergic process lies in the impact it has on the quality of life of patients because it affects sleep, work and school activities, social interactions and the psychological state of the patient.