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59The Belief in Reality and the Reality of BeliefGiornale di Metafisica 17 (1-2): 71-85. 1995.The ontological arguments (OA) discussion is about the relations between essence and existence, and between analytic and synthetic judgments. Rationalists asserts that essence determines existence. Empiricists assert that existence cannot be deduced from thought. However, both made the error of disconnecting the objective existence of God from subjective thought about Him. We propose to demonstrate two interconnected theses: A) In the course of its historical development, the OA did not manage t…Read more
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12Bentham's 'two theses' argumentManuscrito 27 (2): 405-430. 2004.Bentham argues that Nature has placed mankind under the governance of pain and pleasure. They determine what we ought to do, as well as what we shall do. Bentham tries to answer two different questions. The first is whether people are actually looking for pleasure. It is a cognitive question about human nature, formulated at a meta-ethical level. The second is whether people ought to look for pleasure. The question is formulated on the ethical level and Bentham asserts that people ought to look …Read more
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261The Ontological Argument ReconsideredJournal of Philosophical Research 15 279-310. 1990.The ontological argument- proposed by St. Anselm and developed by Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and Marx- furnishes a key to understanding the relationship between thought and reality. In this article, we shall focus on Hegel’s attitude towards the ontological argument as set out in his Science of Logic, where it appears as a paradigm of the relationship between thought and reality. It should be remarked, moreover, that our choice of the subject was not random and that it was selected for the…Read more
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8The Incongruity Between Knowledge and Valuation in David Hume's Theory of Knowledge a Reconsideration of Hume's SkepticismPhilosophical Inquiry 17 (3-4): 1-12. 1995.
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10Relation and object in Plato's approach to knowledgeTheoria 53 (2-3): 141-159. 1987.THE aim of this paper is to explain a paradox in Plato's philosophy. On the one hand, Plato reduces virtue to knowledge; on the other, he rejects the possibility of knowledge or at least has serious doubts that it exists. I shall propose in this paper that the definition of virtue as knowledge is a logical outcome of Plato's denial of the particular aspect of knowledge as cognitive relation. This paper may also be considered as an attempt to resolve the Hintikka‐Santas polemic about whether ther…Read more
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7Le rejet de la connaissance de la connaissance, la these centrale du Charmide de PlatonRevue Philosophique De Louvain 106 (4): 663-693. 2008.
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6The torn human activity: A response to Alfred guy's “the role of aristotle'spraxis today” (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 27 (2): 231-234. 1993.
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The bidimensionality of mind: Essence and existence in Kant and HegelArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 82 (3): 332-348. 2000.
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