Description: This line of research is dedicated to the systematic investigation of classical and contemporary themes in ethics and political philosophy. This line covers the following areas:
a) The relationship between ethics and politics from the perspective of updating classical themes in the contemporary debate, with a relevant historical-philosophical study for reflection on the demands and problems of the present;
b) Theories of Democracy, the State and Law, from different perspectives and theoretical matrices, with an emphasis on Critical Theory and the republican, liberal, socialist and democratic strands (representative, participatory, deliberative and radical democracy) and their most prominent representatives in modern and contemporary times.
c) Feminist Theories, focusing on the relationship between Ethics and Politics based on the diagnosis of the exclusion of women from the public sphere and the demand for women's rights;
d) Critical Race Theory, focusing on the relationship between Ethics and Politics based on the diagnosis of the exclusion of black people from the public sphere and the demand for their rights, as elaborated by contemporary black philosophers.