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14Gender Identities in a Globalized World (edited book)Humanity Books. 2008.This cross-disciplinary collection of essays focuses on gender from multiple perspectives. The main themes include human rights, political economy, cultural diversity, democracy, immigration, dignity, care, and shifts in hegemonic male models of societies.
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13Naturaleza y función del gobierno en HumeRevista de Filosofía (Madrid) 33 (1): 161-196. 2008.I explore Hume’s argument for the existence of government, in which he articulates psychological and social elements. Given the human tendency to satisfy the proximate above the remote interests, the fulfilment of the rules of justice, which makes social cooperation possible, must be warranted by the artifice of government. Once the government is in place, it also performs a coordinating function, which strengthens preexistent activities, such as commerce. Indirectly, the government fulfils also…Read more
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13Depositum Gladius Non Debet Restitui Furioso: Precepts, Synderesis, and Virtues in Saint Thomas AquinasThe Thomist 63 217-240. 1999.I examine all the occasions on which Aquinas uses a particular example, which goes back to Plato's Republic, to shed light on the controversial subject of the immutability of natural law. Aquinas usually transcribes it as depositum gladius non debet restitui furioso, although some variations also occur. We shall first look at the context in which Plato situates this idea, then go on to examine the occasions on which Aquinas draws on it: in the Summa, when discussing the question as to whether th…Read more
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11La doble aproximación de Kant a la culturaAnuario Filosófico 37 (80): 679-711. 2004.This article explores one aspect of Kant's crucial contribution to the philosophy of culture. It does so by analysing two different approaches to the notion of culture, which are explicit in his work. The first, which may be called "genetical", presents culture almost as a result of a natural dialectic. The second, which I call "practical", regards culture as a task for the human being.
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10Semejanzas estructurales entre la tradición de la filosofía moral y la teoría social de DurkheimPensamiento. Revista de Investigación E Información Filosófica 72 (274): 1197. 2017.The first sociological theories are indebted to Enlightenment philosophy of history, which first appeared to provide a framework of meaning for moral action once moral theory had renounced the metaphysical commitments of early modern moral philosophy. While defending the autonomy of sociology from philosophy, Durkheim prescribed a specific task for sociological thought, namely: develop a moral science which, by keeping together the two features with which moral facts appear before conscience —s…Read more
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10El uso habitual del lenguaje reconocía hasta hace todavía relativamente poco tiempo un sentido ético-normativo en los términos "natural" y "naturaleza". De un tiempo a esta parte, sin embargo, ha penetrado profunda¬mente en el sentido común epocal la idea de la diferenciación del hombre con respecto a la naturaleza. De ahí que, ante la invitación a secundar la naturaleza, no sea infrecuente escuchar la respuesta: "¿por qué? ¡si yo soy un ser racional, una persona!". Esta mentalidad coexiste cult…Read more
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9Morality, moral philosophy and metaphysics in Saint Thomas AquinasPensamiento 56 (216): 439-467. 2000.Hablar de ciencia moral es equívoco, pues depende del concepto de ciencia que manejemos, clásico, moderno o contemporáneo. Por otra parte, aun si aceptamos la posibilidad de una ciencia moral, queda pendiente la cuestión de su estatuto epistemológico: si es una ciencia práctica, si es una ciencia especulativa, y, en todo caso, qué relación guarda con la metafísica. En este artículo se examinan estos tres temas en el pensamiento de Santo Tomás de Aquino, teniendo presentes las objeciones que se h…Read more
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9Presentación. Razón práctica en la Ilustración EscocesaAnuario Filosófico 9-13. 2009.Investigaciones recientes sobre la Ilustración escocesa han dirigido nuestra atención a la conexión entre filosofía moral y el surgimiento de las ciencias sociales en este periodo. Como testigos privilegiados del proceso de modernización, los filósofos escoceses desarrollaron un enfoque original de los problemas morales, planteando, entre tanto, cuestiones de orden epistemológico que son cruciales para entender el posterior desarrollo de la sociología. En la base de esas cuestiones epistemológic…Read more
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8This book is a major contribution to the renewed interest in natural law. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of natural law, both from a historical and a systematic point of view. It ranges from the mediaeval synthesis of Aquinas through the early modern elaborations of natural law, up to current discussions on the very possibility and practical relevance of natural law theory for the contemporary mind.
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8Resumen: La novela póstuma de Macedonio Fernández, Museo de la Novela de la Eterna es una obra paradigmática de la narrativa argentina. Su largo proceso de escritura desde 1904 y su publicación diferida en 1967 despiertan un interés en la historia de su recepción. El objetivo del presente trabajo es señalar algunas paradojas que surgen de las lecturas del texto y de cómo se ha interpretado su autonomía ficcional durante el contexto de su publicación -el boom-. La primera parte busca delimitar la…Read more
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89. Hume as Forerunner of the Sociology of Emotions: The Effect of Context, Comparison and Sympathy on the Genesis of PrideIn R. J. W. Mills & Craig Smith (eds.), The Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory and Moral Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Christopher J. Berry, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 199-221. 2021.
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7Cultura y felicidad en KantTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 23 (1-3). 2004.In this paper I describe the conflict between happiness and culture, as it appears in Kant’s texts –almost as an unsolvable conflict, which partially follows from the contraposition between nature and reason. Next, I show how Kant’s philosophy of history may be approached as an attempt to construct an imaginary ideal, that can help us to mitigate that conflict. ------------------------- RESUMEN. En este artículo describo el conflicto entre felicidad y cultura, como se plantea en los textos kan…Read more
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6El hombre como buscador: una lectura práctico-existencial de la "Fides et ratio"Anuario Filosófico 32 (65): 663-688. 1999.This paper focuses on the third chapter of Fides et ratio, entitled Intellego ut credam This sentence is usually connected with the preambula fidei, truths which are supposed to prepare human mind to receive the gift of faith. But in this case, Pope John Paul II develops this sentence in a different, more existential way according to which the real preambula fidei are not so much a set of truths as the real man who seeks the truth with his entire life. This interpretation remarks the practical d…Read more
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6Persona y naturaleza en la ética de Leonardo PoloAnuario Filosófico 29 (55): 665-680. 1996.Polo's anthropology differs both from aristotelian and modern anthropology in his concept of person. In this paper, I explore the ethical relevance of this concept and its conection with the concept of "human nature", which Polo assumes making a distinction between "essence" and "type". This distinction is important in order to focus the ethical aspect of the relationship between nature and culture correctly
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6El estatuto de "lo moral": reflexión histórico-críticaAnuario Filosófico 30 (59): 703-772. 1997.In order to clarify the status of morality, this paper tries to answer the following questions: 1. Which is the difference between morality and happiness in Aristotle? 2. How does Thomas Aquinas assume the aristotelian ethics whithin a christian frame? 3. What has aristotelian and thomistic ethics in common? 4. Which is the main difference between their concept of morality and the modern one
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4The Emotions and Cultural AnalysisRoutledge. 2012.Amidst prevailing debates that construe rationality and emotionality as polar opposites, this book explores the manner in which emotions shape not only prevailing conceptions of rationality, but also culture in general terms, making room for us to speak of an 'emotional culture' specific to late-modern societies. Presenting case studies involving cultural artefacts, narratives found in fictional and non-fictional literature and television programs, speech patterns and self-talk, fashion, and soc…Read more
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4La recepción de museo de la novela de la eterna. De la vanguardia diferida en el boom a la nacionalización de su autonomía en el posboomAlpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofia 1 (54): 139-155. 2022.La novela póstuma de Macedonio Fernández, Museo de la Novela de la Eterna es una obra paradigmática de la narrativa argentina. Su largo proceso de escritura desde 1904 y su publicación diferida en 1967 despiertan un interés en la historia de su recepción. El objetivo del presente trabajo es señalar algunas paradojas que surgen de las lecturas del texto y de cómo se ha interpretado su autonomía ficcional durante el contexto de su publicación –el boom–. La primera parte busca delimitar la noción d…Read more
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4Gerson, Lloyd P.: God and Greek philosophy, Studies in the Early History of Natural Theology, Routledge, London, New York, 1994, 340 págs (review)Anuario Filosófico 612-613. 1998.
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3Prior, William J.: Virtue and knowledge. An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics, Routledge, London, 1991, 224 págsAnuario Filosófico 628-629. 1998.
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2MELENDO, TOMÁS, Dignidad humana y bioética, EUNSA, Pamplona, 1999, 186 págsAnuario Filosófico 308-309. 2000.
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2Ingardia, Richard: Thomas Aquinas. International Bibliography 1977-1990, The Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green (Ohio), 1993 (review)Anuario Filosófico 170-170. 1995.
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Experimental Study of Phantom Colours in a Colour Blind SynaestheteJournal of Consciousness Studies 14 (4): 75-95. 2007.Synaesthesia is a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces photisms, i.e. mental percepts of colours. R is a 20 year old colour blind subject who, in addition to the relatively common grapheme-colour synaesthesia, presents a rarely reported cross modal perception in which a variety of visual stimuli elicit aura-like percepts of colour. In R, photisms seem to be closely related to the affective valence of stimuli and typic…Read more
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