Ontologia e práxis em Louis Lavelle

The texts that constitute this volume dedicated to the thought of the French philosopher Louis Lavelle (1883-1951) bring to the public the final result of the research work carried out within the scope of the first edition of the Seminar of In-depth Studies on the Ontology of Louis Lavelle, held at the Centre for Philosophy Studies of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University. Originally presented as a Colloquium, these research papers now find their final expression in this volume. According to Jean École, "Lavelle outlined a doctrine of being that, as it developed, renewed the problematics of all the great traditional themes. We find here worked out the themes of evil, suffering, and the possible overcoming of both within an ontological horizon in which human action is informed by an intuition of value that discovers the essence of the radical difference between being and non-being. In a cultural world in need of reborn ontological attention to the real, the study of this author's thought contributes to a new consideration of the very essence and substance of that reality.