José Beato holds a PhD in Contemporary Philosophy and is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Coimbra. He is an integrated member of the Institute for Philosophical Studies (IEF, Coimbra), where he contributed to the main research project Care, Heritage, and the History of Philosophy. His work focuses on metaphysics and the phenomenology of emotions and sentiment, with particular emphasis on the historical and systematic intersections between classical and contemporary debates. In recent years, he has expanded his research toward the renewal of virtue ethics, engaging with both continental and Anglo-American philosophical traditions. Within the framework of the project Care, Politics, and Ethics, he investigated how virtue ethics and the ethics of care can be integrated into a unified and comprehensive model for normative ethics. His research interests also extend to the metaphysics of time and temporality. He collaborates with the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, contributing to the research project Hermeneutic Rationality. His work in this context aims to deepen contemporary philosophical reflection through a sustained dialogue with the classical humanist tradition.