António Rocha Martins
Research Group: HPhil
Doctor in Philosophy by the University of Lisbon in 2009 with the thesis on the
philosophical thought of St. Bonaventure (“Analogy and Metaphor”). His research
trajectory mainly is oriented in the areas of Ancient and Medieval philosophy and
theology, deepening into the history of political thought, philosophy of mind and
metaphysics.
Another of his lines of research is Portuguese thought and didactics of philosophy,
contributing to it, with various publications and conferences on the themes. Post-
doctoral research focused on “tradition, reception and transformations” of the political
philosophy of Aristotle in the Latin West.
E-mail address: antonio.rocha.martins@gmail.com
Selected Publications
Rocha Martins, A., “The Secretum secretorum and the Idea of Political Happiness in the Latin
Middle Ages”, in M. Brinzei et alii (ed.), Pseudo-Aristotelian Texts in Medieval Thought, Acts of
the XXII Annual Colloquium of the Société International pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale,
Cluj-Napoca, 28–30 September 2016, Brepols (Oct/2023).
Rocha Martins, A., “Medieval metamorphoses of ‘Nicomachean ethics’: singular case of
Thomas Aquinas”, in Verbum, 23, S. Petersburg, 2021, pp. 103-138. ISBN 978-5-00200-
043-2.
Rocha Martins, A., «Escatologia e Utopia: mediação da justiça em Agostinho de Hipona e
Thomas More», in Utopia Global do Espírito Santo – Vol. I: Cultura, Culto e Inspirações
Utópicas, Universidade de Coimbra, 2021, pp. 41-58, 2021.
Rocha Martins, A., “Neoplatonismo Político Medieval: Receção de Proclo”, Philosophica, 58
(2021), pp. 9-31.
Rocha Martins, A., “Os Nomes Divinos – Boaventura e Dionísio Areopagita (a propósito
de I Sent., d. 22, a. un., qs. 1-4; I 390a-399b)”, Scintilla – Revista de Filosofia e Mística Medieval,
18 (2021), pp. 75-86.
Rocha Martins, A., “Receção do Neoplatonismo em Pierre Hadot”, Philosophica, 58 (2021),
pp. 145-161.
Rocha Martins, A., “The zoon politikon: Medieval Aristotelian interpretations”, Revista
Portuguesa de Filosofia, 75 (2019), pp. 1539-1574.
Rocha Martins, A., “Ius et Iustitia. The idea of justice in Augustine of Hippo’s De Civitate
Dei”, in De civitate Dei de Santo Agostinho – “Dois Amores, Duas Cidades”, Documenta,
Lisboa, 2019, pp. 105-129.