A regulação do setor ferroviário brasileiro: monopólio natural, concorrência e risco moral

Este trabalho analisará a eficiência econômica do arcabouço regulatório do setor ferroviário brasileiro e sua influência sobre o desenvolvimento do modal ferroviário no País e sobre as empresas detentoras dos atuais contratos de concessão vigentes desde a desestatização das ferrovias, iniciada em 1996. A hipótese formulada é que a regulação, ainda que mínima, foi fundamental, na segunda metade da década de 1990, para criar as condições jurídicas e econômicas necessárias para a desestatização do setor. Por outro lado, a despeito dos avanços econômicos do modal ferroviário nos primeiros quinze anos de concessão, é possível constatar distorções, exemplificadas pela baixa concorrência, pelo abandono de alguns trechos e pela falta de integração entre as malhas ferroviárias. Por essa razão, serão analisados os aspectos históricos do desenvolvimento das ferrovias no Brasil, as condições e premissas que nortearam o Estado no processo de desestatização, os instrumentos contratuais, os investimentos privados nas estradas de ferro, a experiência de outros países na condução de reformas para o fortalecimento do transporte ferroviário e finalmente as novas Resoluções propostas pelo poder concedente em 2011, que são, conjuntamente, intituladas “o novo marco regulatório do setor ferroviário".

Educação física no PPGCMH/UFRGS : uma visão a partir da análise de citações e perfil dos pesquisadores

Este trabalho analisa o perfil dos professores e 1.171 citações de teses do Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência do Movimento Humano da Escola de Educação Física da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul defendidas entre os anos 2003 e 2004, com os objetivos de detectar as características das fontes de informação utilizadas pelos doutores; contribuir para aos estudos epistemológicos do campo, sob o prisma da ciência da informação; caracterizar os elementos textuais e explorar suas potencialidades, visando ao conhecimento do campo científico da educação física. O estudo está centrado na descoberta de indícios nas citações que possibilitem o conhecimento da área. O referencial teórico está fundamentado em diversificados campos do conhecimento: na história, mais especificamente do método indiciário, utilizado neste estudo; na sociologia do conhecimento, com ênfase na sociologia da ciência; na ciência da informação, salientando a bibliometria, a análise de citações e a comunicação científica, abordando três teorias importantes sobre comunidades científicas (Kuhn, Bordieu e Knorr-Cetina); e, por último, da educação física. Do primeiro campo buscam-se os fundamentos para o uso de dados e fatores indiciários para o desvelamento de uma realidade; do segundo, o caminho que percorrem os saberes para seu estabelecimento no mundo científico e acadêmico, e a origem das citações em documentos. Do terceiro, utilizam-se ferramentas e técnicas, bem como as construções teóricas a respeito de comunicação científica e produção acadêmica. Ao quarto corresponde o objeto desta pesquisa, o campo de conhecimento denominado, por alguns autores, ciência do movimento humano e, por outros, educação física, desenvolvido em seus aspectos históricos gerais e locais. Foram identificados e relacionados os seguintes indicadores: tipo de autoria, autores citados, tipo de documento, idioma, obsolescência, título de periódico e assunto das citações. As 1.171 referências estudadas revelaram que: artigo de periódico é o tipo de documento mais utilizado (49,53%); inglês é o idioma predominante nos documentos das citações (55,85%); as publicações do período de 1991-2000 cobrem 56,02% das citações, com pico em 1998 e provável meia-vida dos documentos da área em torno de cinco anos; 41,76% dos documentos citados são escritos por um único autor; e 54,23%, por mais de um autor. Os assuntos predominantes que fazem a interdisciplinaridade do campo são, nesta ordem: ciências sociais, medicina, biofísica, esportes, educação, filosofia, ensino e forma física. Foram citados 1.825 diferentes autores evidenciando uma grande dispersão na área e entre os mais representativos estão Morin, Foucault e Lapierre. Há dispersão tanto em autores quanto em títulos de periódicos: 80,71% foram citados somente uma vez; e 37,11%, mais de uma vez. Apenas seis periódicos foram citados em mais de uma tese, sendo cinco estrangeiros e um nacional. As linhas de pesquisas predominantes no PPGCMH são da área de concentração Movimento humano, saúde e performance, que privilegia projetos de caráter biológico. O mesmo ocorre com o número de teses, sendo 89% delas da mesma área de concentração. Há necessidade de maior produção nacional em termos teóricos para a área de educação física. A análise realizada propiciou verificar que os campos científicos e as suas respectivas comunidades se desenvolvem de forma contingencial e contextual. O método indiciário possibilitou costurar os indícios apresentados pelas variáveis analisadas e mostrou ser um método possível em estudos de bibliometria e análise de citações. Há indícios de hábitos de citação doméstica e endogenia, mas não foram comprovados neste estudo.

Daí san sekuta: o universo das organizações do terceiro setor da comunidade japonesa de São Paulo

Este trabalho teve como objetivo principal identificar e classificar as organizações do Terceiro Setor de origem japonesa – Daí San Sekuta, em japonês - no Brasil, mais precisamente no município de São Paulo. O que se procurou entender foi como, a partir desta classificação, seria possível compreender a formação de organizações do Terceiro Setor desde o início da imigração japonesa até os dias atuais, a que tipos de atividades vêm se dedicando estas organizações e identificar o grau de abertura que estas organizações apresentam em relação à sociedade em geral. Procurou-se concentrar esforços na busca por uma maior fundamentação teórica sobre alguns assuntos, tais como: definição da metodologia a ser adotada através do estudo dos principais pensadores sobre Terceiro Setor, bem como um maior aprofundamento sobre o assunto, a cultura japonesa e seu Terceiro Setor, e por fim, o desenvolvimento desse Setor no Brasil. Para que este objetivo fosse alcançado, uma primeira parte deste trabalho consistiu na pesquisa sobre a questão da imigração japonesa no Brasil e como algumas organizações típicas foram criadas. Esta primeira parte foi relatada no trabalho de iniciação científica de Fernando Yuiti Fujisawa, Organizações do Terceiro Setor e Imigrantes em São Paulo: a comunidade japonesa (2003), financiado pelo GVPesquisa. Apesar de no presente relatório terem sido incorporados muitos dos elementos do trabalho de iniciação científica, foi necessário aprofundar mais ainda na pesquisa. E foi nesta parte, que tratou basicamente de compreender tanto aspectos históricos do Japão e da imigração japonesa no Brasil, como também a maneira pela qual os imigrantes japoneses se organizaram em organizações de Terceiro Setor, que tivemos que contar com várias pessoas que, gentilmente, cederam uma parte do seu tempo para nos ajudar de diversas formas, desde como procedermos as pesquisas no Bunkyo, até mesmo como poderíamos traduzir alguns elementos da língua japonesa. Embora várias delas mereçam gratidão, gostaríamos de mencionar duas pessoas em especial e, por meio delas, agradecer a todos. Queremos agradecer à Célia Oi, Museu de Imigração Japonesa no Brasil e coordenadora do levantamento das informações do Guia da Cultura Japonesa, que nos ajudou a entender este universo complicado das diversas organizações da comunidade japonesa. Também queremos agradecer à Suyoko Ueno, historiadora que nos ajudou bastante e, com muito carinho, procurou dar algum sentido aos nossos travellings sobre a história do Japão e sobre a imigração japonesa no Brasil. Este trabalho está assim dividido. Na primeira parte tratamos do referencial teórico que norteou este trabalho: as questões sobre Terceiro Setor; a histórica e sociedade japonesa; e a imigração japonesa para o Brasil. Depois, tratamos de explicar a metodologia deste trabalho, para em seguida apresentarmos os resultados da nossa classificação. Por fim, traçamos alguns parágrafos sobre algumas possíveis inferências que se podem fazer a partir dos resultados.

O plural da infância: aportes da sociologia

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Fundamentos da arte/educação

Módulo 2

Ciência, determinação e arte: os quadrados mágicos e a composição

Serão analisados aspectos históricos e estruturais dos quadrados mágicos e apresentados os materiais resultantes dessa investigação para efeito da composição de uma obra para coro, solistas e orquestra, a Paixão . O quadrado mágico, um dispositivo de características de construção matemáticas, adquiriu contornos místicos ao longo da história, por suas propriedades de simetria e beleza. O processo criativo dentro de uma perspectiva determinística, procura analisar o papel de estruturas pré-estabelecidas para a obtenção de materiais destinados a integrar o repertório de elementos pré-composicionais.

O município brasileiro e o direito fundamental do acesso à justiça: a prestação da assistência jurídica municipal ao necessitado

This scholarly work aims to investigate the feasibility and constitutionality of access to justice through the provision of full and free legal assistance by the Brazilian municipalities. Investigates the historical aspects of federalism in a global context, emphasizing the contributions left by American federalism. In the Brazilian context, emphasizing the importance of municipalities as federal entities and their outstanding characteristics, while addressing regional issues of federalism. Leanings to the more detailed analysis of the Brazilian municipalities, contextualizing its legal status, its independence and its constitutional powers. It is emphasized in the same way, the relevant transformations of Brazilian municipalities over the last twenty years of this Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil in 1988, especially the various constitutional amendments that affected the local autonomy and budgetary aspects, fiscal and skills, bringing significant changes to the municipalities. It is an approach to the concept of justice and deepening the studies on the fundamental right of access to justice in its various connotations. In this vein, it is a study on the legal advice provided in Brazil, especially the powers of the Public Defender of the States and Union, as well as the provision of such public service by Brazilian municipalities and its relevance to citizens in need. At this point, it deepens the relevance of the theme of this dissertation earning the implications of municipal performance in the provision of legal assistance provided to the needy, and the activity of the Municipal Attorney or legal counsel in conducting such a task and its implications for legal and procedural especially on the constitutionality or otherwise of the conduct of such public service, confronting the constitutional articles that are correlated with the subject. Within this context, evaluates the municipal legal assistance under the test of constitutionality, in particular the assistance given by the Executive, through the Municipal Attorney or specialized secretariats and that provided by the Legislature, although it only has the typical functions of legislating and control the municipal accounts, comes in a few municipalities in Brazil deploying sectors with the performance of legal services to the needy. At this point the thesis, one wonders if some important aspects of this activity such as political influence and patronage, very common in day-to-day municipal prosecutors and legal advisers, public employees or occupying commissioned positions within the municipal administrative structure in several municipalities throughout Brazil. Finally, there will be a conclusion as to the constitutionality of the service being done by presenting proposals and recommendations that may improve the municipal legal aid, allowing a constitutional backing to this important service is being provided in capital cities and municipalities throughout the length of Brazil

Federalismo cooperativo e o exercício da competência administrativa ambiental

This paper aims to discuss the conflicts of competence in environmental matters, as well as the legitimacy of the normative acts in the exercise of jurisdiction effected environmental management. For this work, addresses the issue of federalism, North American (dual) and German (cooperative), deepening its historical and theoretical fundamentals, as well as the influences on the evolution of the ideological matrix of Brazilian federalism. Distinguishes itself around the problem the theoretical and abstract discussion involving the constitutional division of powers, and the issue of his relationship with the vicissitudes in the embracement of environmental matters that invariably leads to mistakes in the exercise of jurisdiction environmental management. Its highlight the existence of a framework environmental law, embodying the principles themselves as well as a specific object of authority, which qualifies a different interpretation of the rules of constitutional powers as well as influencing the acting agent of government in managing the public good environment. The study represents an exploratory research as it investigates the depths of the institutes are in evidence not only with satisfying its practical outcome. For this to happen, explores bibliographical sources and identified by the science of law as more important, as the search for social-political boundary which takes the issue studied in their historical and contextual materiality, whose study is essential for a complete understanding of the topic . The dialectic that arguments have been constructed throughout the monograph, attempts to pass a critical way to expose the author's ideas, which considers as essential in the arrival of new questions

O piso salarial nacional: a valorização do professor na Constituição de 1988

The paper investigates the legal mechanisms used by the Legislature and the Executive to implement the constitutional principle of the teacher s minimum wage, which is proclaimed in the Constitution as a strategy of professional appreciation for this category. The text demonstrates that the legal mechanisms used to value the teacher were: the 1988 Constitution, the constitutional amendments to this Charter updated and modified the original text in relation to the matter, and finally, the Minimum Wage Law . Article nº 206 of 1988 s Federal Constitution established that basic education teachers, who work in public schools, would be entitled to a national minimum wage. Law nº 11.738/2008 ( Minimum Wage Law ) regulated the matter and made other determinations on the relationship between the State and the teachers such as the establishment of parameters for the distribution of the workload of teachers. Based on this law, since 2009 the minimum wage has been set annually by the Federal Government. However, state governments and municipalities throughout Brazil protested prescriptions contained in the Minimum Wage Law . In this context, some governors and mayors led the Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of this law. The complainants considered that there was unconstitutional by the following: definition of the teacher s workday, which in the complainants point of view was competence of local governments; ensuring that teachers receive salaries tied to the minimum wage with retroactive effect; transformation of the minimum wage in basic salary, lack of sufficient budget in the states and municipalities to honor with the new values to be paid to teachers and, finally, determining workload for the teacher to perform other activities besides classroom activities. At the trial held at the STF the majority of Ministers rejected the claim and considered that the Minimum Wage Law , taken together, was constitutional. However, this decision did not alter the position of the managers or the interpretation of the ministers who agreed with the unconstitutionality of some aspects of the law. This means that one law can present differences in interpretation between ordinary people and among members of the Judiciary. The search showed the following conclusions: the law is not a definitive parameter of justice, because it is deeply linked to various interests; the development, implementation, and judgment of laws dealing with minimum wage of teaching are linked to historical and cultural aspects of society; the demand for enhancement of teacher and setting a minimum wage has only emerged in the late twentieth century, a fact explained in this work based on data that indicate the recent concern of Brazilian State with schooling a phenomenon typically Republican and with the professionalization of teaching emerging concern from the knowledge society; the Legislative and Executive search mechanism to implement the minimum wage of the teachers because of the contemporary need for professionalization of teaching

Dignidade da pessoa humana e medidas sócio-educativas do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente

The main goal of this work is to verify the presence of the principle of human dignity, determined by the Constitution of 1988, when Socio Educational Acts from the Statute of Children and adolescent were put in practice, focusing on the treatment designated to the youth whose acts were against the law in the city of Natal, as well as the difficulties to match the legal texts and its reality. It is common knowledge that the law for children and adolescent was based in the principle of human dignity, for its institutes say so. But would the Law match the practice of Socio Educational Acts? Or this law would be an example of good intentions that never left the paper and became reality? First there is an approach on the human dignity principle, with its definition and limitation, according to a theory about the theme. Afterwards it is made a connection between human rights and the principle of human dignity considering historical and social features, for the law is also a reflect of these transformations, we try to show the different laws the country had until today, concerning the children inflicted by poverty and those whose acts were against the law, since the rodas dos expostos, the phase of irregular situation, in which the children were arrested simply because they were beggars, until present time. The theory aspects are shown beside a field research made with the adolescent and staff from CEDUC/Natal, producing a critical view about the subject and showing some solutions for the problems found. At last, it is made a critical analyses of the problems detected on the field research, and, in some cases, a suggestion is given to change the reality

Economia do petróleo e desenvolvimento: estudo exploratório sobre as perspectivas do pré-sal brasileiro

A pesquisa analisa as possibilidades abertas pela exploração de petróleo na camada pré-sal, avaliando de que maneira a expansão do setor petrolífero poderá acelerar o crescimento econômico brasileiro e contribuir para novas estratégias de desenvolvimento. A hipótese inicial é que o Brasil enfrenta uma restrição estrutural de balanço de pagamentos, que poderá ser amenizada pela diminuição das importações de petróleo e derivados e pelo aumento do valor exportado no setor. Para avaliá-la são resgatados aspectos históricos e geopolíticos relacionados ao petróleo, assim como são tratadas as características microeconômicas dos recursos naturais não renováveis. Também se consideram questões de ordem macroeconômica, como a especialização produtiva da economia brasileira e sua inserção no comércio internacional, discutindo como o desenvolvimento da indústria petrolífera poderá afetá-las. Para tanto, a investigação fundamenta-se na teoria estruturalista e nos modelos de crescimento com ênfase na restrição externa. O trabalho examina ainda os casos da Rússia, Venezuela e México para avaliar a experiência de países exportadores de petróleo. Como contribuição, um modelo de crescimento é utilizado para realizar simulações acerca do Brasil, cobrindo o período 2013-2020 com a formulação de três cenários. A partir dos resultados discute-se que a necessidade de consecução das metas fiscal e de inflação pode desencadear políticas restritivas que limitam a utilização da folga fiscal e externa, oriundas do pré-sal, para induzir o crescimento. Conclui-se que um círculo virtuoso de desenvolvimento com mudança estrutural depende não apenas da modernização produtiva, mas também, e principalmente, da evolução político-institucional do país

Reflexões e contribuições para o ensino de gravitação clássica no nível médio

The subject of Classic Gravitation is part of the actual curriculum for High School in Brazil, and it is taught in the first year of that education level. This master thesis presents a research regarding the subject Classic Gravitation in High School. This research was based in two complementary guidelines of research and action. The first guideline was the analysis of 21 didactic books of physics which are the more frequently used in High School, in the city of Natal/RN. The second guideline, worked after being verified the most common deficiencies presents in the didactic books, was the elaboration, followed by a practical application, of a course suggesting how to approach that subject in the classroom. The Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais para o Ensino Médio (National Curricular Parameters for High School PCNEM) defend that Classic Gravitation is very important in the student s formation and that its study helps the comprehension of many nature s phenomena. Because of this vision of that subject by the PCNEM, the 21 analyzed books were separated in two groups: the first one, containing 10 books, was edited before the spreading of PCNEM, and the second, with 11 books, after that spreading. Whatever the group to which the didactic books belonged, the great majority of them let that subject in a second plan; two of them even suggesting, in the teacher s orientations, that the subject Gravitation can be suppressed in case of insufficient time . These analyses points that the PCNEM had produced no changes in the conception of the authors that wrote books regarding that subject. To analyze the didactic books, we elaborated a script which was used as an analysis tool, in which we put in evidence the relative importance of the historic and philosophic contextualization of the subject, the quotidian experience of the students and the interdisciplinary approach, among other aspects. It became evident that the didactic books give very little emphasis to historic aspects of the knowledge construction, to the relations with the day-by-day questions and to the interdisciplinary character of the subject Gravitation. It calls attention the non concordance among the authors opinions regarding the necessary previous knowledge or prerequisites the students should fulfill in order to begin to study Gravitation. The course we elaborated was given to a group of teachers as well as to students. In those courses we treated theoretical and practical aspects and emphasized historical questions and the ones which are related to people s daily life. The course for teachers was realized as an extra-mural activity of the UFRN and was given by the author of this thesis at the Escola Estadual Francisco Ivo Cavalcanti (a state public school in Natal/RN). There were 23 teachers present, from several public schools and several fields of knowledge. The thesis supervisor and the master degree s colleagues of the author acted as collaborators , reporting the participants opinions and speeches. The course to the students, on the other hand, had the participation of 300 regular students who belonged to 6 different 1st year classes of the High School Escola Marista de Natal (RN), in which the author acts as a physics teacher. The student s course was realized as part of the regular curriculum activities, in which three classes stood under the responsibility of the author and other three classes in charge of another Marista s teacher, who participated as a collaborator . The teacher s course as well as the students one were given in two stages, with five hours each. The first stage was divided in two moments, the first one focused on the survey of the spontaneous conceptions about gravitation, in which we worked basically with experiments of free throwing and pendulum, and the second one focused in theoretical presentations and quarrels about universe s models. In the second stage of the course we improved the study of Kepler s laws and the Newton s Universal Gravitation law, and we used as motivating tools some practices involving the construction of the solar system in scale. As instruments for evaluating both courses we used questionnaires and reported the speeches with participants opinions, beyond usual written evaluations in the course for the students. The teachers who participated in the course showed very good wills in realizing interdisciplinary practices; nevertheless, according their own speeches, they frequently came across the difficulty of how to do . From the experience we had in both courses, we conclude that the approach we propose hear to the teaching of the subject Classic Gravitation , supported on the tripod theory, practice and historical and philosophical aspects, is viable and effective. One hopes that this research may contribute in the formation of a opinion, among the teachers, concerning how to approach the subject of Classic Gravitation, and may offer suggestions in order those who want to apply that approach may develop classroom practices aiming to improve the teaching of that subject, which has a singular importance in the formation of High School students

O uso pedagógico de uma seqüência didática para a aquisição de algumas idéias relacionadas ao conceito de números complexos

The aim of the present work is to contribute to the teaching-learning process in Mathematics through an alternative which tries to motivate the student so that he/she will learn the basic concepts of Complex Numbers and realize that they are not pointless. Therefore, this work s general objective is to construct a didactic sequence which contains structured activities that intends to build up, in each student s thought, the concept of Complex Numbers. The didactic sequence is initially based on a review of the main historical aspects which begot the construction of those numbers. Based on these aspects, and the theories of Richard Skemp, was elaborated a sequence of structured activities linked with Maths history, having the solution of quadratic equations as a main starting point. This should make learning more accessible, because this concept permeates the students previous work and, thus, they should be more familiar with it. The methodological intervention began with the application of that sequence of activities with grade students in public schools who did not yet know the concept of Complex Numbers. It was performed in three phases: a draft study, a draft study II and the final study. Each phase was applied in a different institution, where the classes were randomly divided into groups and each group would discuss and write down the concepts they had developed about Complex Numbers. We also use of another instrument of analysis which consisted of a recorded interview of a semi-structured type, trying to find out the ways the students thought in order to construct their own concepts, i.e. the solutions of the previous activity. Their ideas about Complex Numbers were categorized according to their similarities and then analyzed. The results of the analysis show that the concepts constructed by the students were pertinent and that they complemented each other this supports the conclusion that the use of structured activities is an efficient alternative for the teaching of mathematics

A formação pós-graduada em ensino de ciências naturais e matemática de docentes do IFRN: implicações na atuação docente

This research part of the educational context of the Federal Rio Grande do Norte, through the resumption of legal frameworks that characterize it as an institution belonging to the Federal Network of Professional Education and Technology Brazilian, with a focus on continued education policies for the servers who work there specifically teachers, especially those who have their work in the Teaching of Natural Science and Mathematics. To do this the cut in an agreement between the IFRN and UFRN PPGECNM through the professional master's degree Teaching of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. This agreement as we have research collaborators 08 master teachers who graduated in the period 2004 to 2010, so we undertook a qualitative and quantitative research aimed to conduct the study in general terms of description and analysis of the impacts caused by the formation of masters IFRN in PPGECNM UFRN, taking into account the production of the same academic (dissertation), his performance in the context of the institution and the historical, social, economic and political aspects involved, and also meet the guidelines of the project at the Observatory in 2008 - MEC / CAPES / BSD-P. We used the theoretical options methodological elements of Comprehensive Interview and multireferentiality, our data collection instrument was the main interview, we also performed the analysis of dissertations by lecturers and teachers featured, from the specific descriptors used in catalogs USP / IFUSP (1992, 1996) and UNICAMP / FE / CEDOC (1998) and by other researchers. In analyzing and understanding the speech of the interviewees were able to identify the implications of teacher education in the school context, the motivation to seek the Master; how was the construction of the object of study of the educational product and its use in teaching practice and intervention, the question of the role of master teachers in the school environment to the post master taking into account changes in professional performance and influence in the working groups, how does the use of research and investigation in the classroom after training and between training and educational quality in the context of IFRN. In reading and analysis of the dissertations were able to identify the main focus and under-explored thematic focus as well as the theoretical methodological references. At the end of the research developed a product that could be used for technical analysis studies and assessment in quantitative terms the results achieved by the master teachers IFRN through his training in PPGECNM UFRN

A metafísica de Isaac Newton

The general objective of this dissertation is to analyze the metaphysical aspects of "rational mechanics" of Isaac Newton, clarifying, by scientific and philosophical discourse, their main elements, with emphasis to the presence of one entity infinitely rational behind all the phenomena of nature, and to the Newton's insight as certain empiricist which, however, accepts deductions metaphysics; a philosopher-scientist. The specific objectives are detailed below: a) brief presentation of the development of modern science, since the Pre-Socratics, seeking to understand the historical conjecture that enabled the rise of Newtonian mechanics; b) presentation of the elements of scientific methodology and philosophical, aimed at comprehension of certain "Newtonian methodology", understanding how this specific methodology able to present empirical aspects, mathematics, philosophic and religious in communion; c) to understand, from the Newtonian concepts, both concerning man's role in the world as the "notional notions" of mass, space, time and movement, necessary for analysis and understanding of certain metaphysical aspects in the Newtonian physics; d) to present the Newtonian concepts related to the ether, to understand why it necessarily assumes metaphysics characteristics and mediation between the bodies; e) to present and understand the factors that lead the empiricist Newton to assume the religion in his mechanics, as well as, the existence and functions of God in nature, to object to the higher content of his metaphysics; f) to highlight the metaphysical elements of his classical mechanics, that confirm the presence of concepts like God Creator and Preserver of the natural laws; g) at last, to analyze the importance of Newton to the modern metaphysics and the legacy to philosophy of science at sec. XVII to science contemporary