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Hélder Telo

Researcher (Praxis/UBI)

Hélder Telo is an appointed research fellow at the Praxis Center, where he develops a research project entitled “Care and Truth in Ethics: A Heideggerian Reflection in Dialogue with Plato and Foucault”.

He completed his PhD in Philosophy at the Nova University of Lisbon (2018) with the thesis Unexamined Life on Trial: A Crucial Problem in Plato’s Writings. He carried out part of his doctoral research at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (2009-10 and 2014) and at Boston College (2010-11). During this time, he received grants from FCT and the Center for Collaborative Research [SFB] 1015 Muße/Otium.

Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (Nova University of Lisbon) between 2020 and 2022, where he developed a research project on the art of living and the relationship to truth in Plato and contemporary thought. He was a collaborator of the Institute of Philosophical Studies (University of Coimbra) between 2009 and 2019, collaborated with the ERC project “Honor in Classical Greece” (2018-2022) and collaborates presently with the Nova Philosophy Institute (Nova University of Lisbon), where he integrated the team of the FCT exploratory project “Mapping Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Ancient Model, A Contemporary Approach” (2023-25).

Between 2019 and 2022 he taught multiple free courses and several modules of the Complementary Course in Philosophy at the Luís Krus Center (Nova University of Lisbon) and currently teaches at the University of Beira Interior.

Email: helder.telo@ubi.pt

Main Publications

Edited Books:

 

A. Colen with Anthony Vecchio & Hélder Telo, Uma História das Ideias Sociais e Políticas: Porque Pensamos como Pensamos, edited by Hélder Telo & Samuel Oliveira, Porto, Laisnova, 2021.
J. de Carvalho, A. Caeiro & H. Telo (eds.), In the Mirror of the Phaedrus, Sankt Augustin, Academia, 2013.

 

Articles:

 

H. Telo, “Plato’s Philosophical Mimesis: On the Pedagogical and Protreptic Value of Imperfection”, Schole: Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition 16 (2022), 520-549.
H. Telo, “Passividade e Atividade na Descrição Heideggeriana das Disposições”, Phainomenon – Journal of Phenomenological Philosophy, 31 (2021), 103-125.
H. Telo, “Compaixão e Cuidado Cosmopolitas: Ensinamentos do Sofrimento Pandémico”, Thomas Project: A Border Journal for Utopian Thoughts 4, 23-39.
H. Telo, “Emoções Quotidianas e Emoções Éticas em Aristóteles e Heidegger”, Filosofia Unisinos/Unisinos Journal of Philosophy 21 (2020), 218-227.
H. Telo, “Relational Self-Care in Aristotle: A Foucaultian and Feminist Reading”, Revue Roumaine de Philosophie 64 (2020), 85–102.

 

Book chapters:

 

H. Telo, “The Care of Others in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations”, in: M. S. de Carvalho & J. Braga (eds.), Philosophy of Care – New Approaches to Vulnerability, Otherness and Therapy, Dordrecht, Springer, 2021, 167-180.
H. Telo, “The Care of Others in Alcibiades I”, in: M. J. de Carvalho & S. Oliveira (eds.), Rediscovering the Alcibiades Major, Coimbra, Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, 2019, 217-240 (reed.: Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020).
H. Telo, “The Primacy of the Whole in Scheler’s Phenomenology of Otherness”, in L. de Sousa & A. Falcato (eds.), Phenomenological Approaches to Intersubjectivity and Values, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, 112-137.
H. Telo, “A autobiografia e a definição de fenomenologia. Reflexões de Heidegger na antecâmara de Ser e tempo”, in: M. Faustino, B. Ryan & G. Ferraro (eds.), Rostos do Si: Autobiografia, Confissão, Terapia, Lisboa, Vendaval, 2019, 169-189.
H. Telo, “The freedom of θεωρία and σχολή in Plato”, in: T. Jürgasch & T. Keiling (eds.), Anthropologie der Theorie, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2017, 11-27.
H. Telo, “Can One Be Miserable Without Knowing It? The Problem of ψυχὴ ὕπουλος in Plato’s Gorgias”, in: M. J. de Carvalho & T. Fidalgo (eds.), Plato’s Gorgias: Labyrinths and Threads, Coimbra, Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, 2016, 125-151 (reed.: Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020).
H. Telo, “Desejo, Verdade e Identidade no Fédon de Platão”, in: N. Ferro & P. Lima (eds.), Categorias Existenciais: Fim, Sentido, Ipseidade, Coimbra, Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, 2016, 39-73.
H. Telo, “Recalling the Godly Rhythm of Yore”, in M. J. de Carvalho, A. Caeiro & H. Telo (eds.), In the Mirror of the Phaedrus, Sankt Augustin, Academia, 2013, 113-168.
H. Telo, “Who is Responsible for das Man?”, in T. Keiling (ed.), Heideggers Marburger Zeit: Themen, Argumenten, Konstellationen, Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2013, 57-69.
H. Telo, “Há, afinal, prazeres falsos?”, in: A. Caeiro & M. J. de Carvalho (eds.), Incursões no Filebo: Estudos sobre Platão, Porto, Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, 2012, 319-382.
Research Areas
Ancient Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism) and Contemporary Philosophy (Heidegger, Hadot, Foucault).

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