Professor Antonio Marques was President of the Scientific Council for several years, a position he held in a way that was transformative for the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences.
He was one of the founders and, for more than 20 years, the director of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, a research unit that, since its creation in 1993, initially under the name of Institute of Philosophy of Language, has always been classified as excellent by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
His doctoral thesis – “Organism and System in Kant” (1987) – confirmed him as an expert on Immanuel Kant, one of the most important thinkers of the Enlightenment, a status he soon acquired and never lost, not only nationally but also internationally.
He is also remembered for his translation, together with Valério Rohden, of the “Critique of Judgment”, also by Kant, and for organising the edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s works in Portuguese.
His reflections on Nietzsche’s perspectivism and, more recently, on Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy are of inestimable scientific value.