International Journal of Philosophy

Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2024

  • Research Article

    The Role of Philosophy in the History of the Timorese Society

    Martinho Borromeu, Nicolau Borromeu, Duarte da Costa Barreto, Marciana Almeida Soares, Elda Sarmento Alves

    Issue: Volume 12, Issue 1, April 2024
    Pages: 1-7
    Received: 23 September 2023
    Accepted: 6 November 2023
    Published: 23 January 2024
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    Abstract: The history of East Timor has gone through several moments of transformation due to human actions that have the presence of Portuguese, Japanese, Indonesians and different social groups and local kingdoms. With this, one can note the trend of the evolution of thinking, arising from education in philosophy and its contribution to the changes that we... Show More
  • Research Article

    Defining Poverty in Liberation Theology: Poverty as Religio-Historical Realidad

    George Harold Trudeau*

    Issue: Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2024
    Pages: 8-15
    Received: 18 January 2024
    Accepted: 26 January 2024
    Published: 2 April 2024
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    Abstract: Poverty is a complex, embodied reality comprising the existential, social, material, and spiritual. This paper draws from liberation theologies from North and South America, defining poverty as a religio-historical realidad. Martin Luther King Jr. observed a disembodied spirituality in many American churches who remained apathetic or antagonistic d... Show More