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9Laks, André and Glenn W. Most (ed. and trans.). Early Greek Philosophy / Les débuts de la philosophie. Des premiers penseurs grecs à Socrate (review)Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 34 (2): 521-523. 2017.
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46Was Báñez a Bañecian?American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94 (3): 431-458. 2020.This article deals with the historical position of Domingo Báñez in the De Auxiliis Controversy. He was a protagonist of the beginning of the dispute and his name was used by the defenders of Luis de Molina to describe the traditional Thomist account on divine providence and free will; even today, many Thomists use the name of Báñez to designate their own position. This article tries to determine his personal opinion regarding the ontology of physical premotion without presupposing the later dev…Read more
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14Anaxagorae HomoeomeriaElenchos 36 (1): 141-148. 2015.Aristotle introduced in the history of the reception of Anaxagoras the term “homoiomerous”. This word refers to substances whose parts are similar to each other and to the whole. Although Aristotle’s explanations can be puzzling, the term “homoiomerous” may explain an authentic aspect of Anaxagoras’ doctrine reflected in the fragments of his work. Perhaps one should find a specific meaning for the term “homoiomerous” in Anaxagoras, somewhat different from the one present in Aristotle. This requi…Read more
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La noción de “homeomería” en AnaxágorasProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 2 (1): 65-69. 2018.Aristóteles introdujo en la historia de la recepción de Anaxágoras el término ‘homeómero’. Este vocablo hace referencia a las sustancias cuyas partes son similares entre sí y también se asemejan al todo. Aunque las explicaciones del Estagirita pueden dar lugar a confusión, cabría que ese término respondiera a un aspecto auténtico de la doctrina de Anaxágoras reflejada en los fragmentos de su obra. Ahora bien, haría falta, quizá, encontrar un significado específico para ‘homeómero’ en Anaxágoras,…Read more
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449La providencia en santo Tomás de AquinoRevista Española de Teología 79 419-454. 2019.According to Aquinas, divine omniscience, omnipotence and providence, do not contradict the existence of either true contingency in the natural world or freedom but, on the contrary, they support them. In short, the two peculiarities of the doctrine of providence in St. Thomas here exposed are: first, that God's will is the ultimate foundation of all contingency (and not merely the deficiency of secondary causes); second, that the divine causality cannot be reduced to any of the two groups of cr…Read more
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200Franz Brentano, la escolástica y el tomismoIn Manuel Lázaro Pulido, Francisco León Florido & Vicente Llamas Roig (eds.), Pensar la Edad Media cristiana: espacios de la filosofía medieval —Córdoba, Toledo, París—, Uned/synderesis. pp. 261-293. 2020.In this article, the author explores how Scholasticism could contribute to Brentano's conception about the relationship between faith and reason. It also shows that Brentano partially misunderstood Aquinas' notion of such relationship. In any case, the specific German Neo-Scholasticism known by Brentano in his youth was not an obstacle to develop a free way of thinking but, on the contrary, it could help him to do it.
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330Amistad y filosofía según AristótelesDisputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin 8. 2019.This paper concentrates on friendship as the best context to philosophize. Although Aristotle says that even alone a person could contemplate the truth, it is possible to argue that a philosophical society is indeed necessary for human beings. In every friendship, it is necessary to share certain activities and, at the same time, notice the presence of the friend. In philosophical friendship, the shared activity is philosophy itself and mutual knowledge among friends acquires a peculiar characte…Read more
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1648Santo Tomás como exégeta bíblico en su Comentario al Evangelio de san JuanFortvnatae 30 225-256. 2019.This article intends to offer a general presentation of the way in which Saint Thomas Aquinas proceeded in his exegesis of sacred texts. The author concentrates on one of Aquinas’ most estimated biblical commentaries, his Lectura on the Gospel according to St. John. Aquinas combines great theological insight with an incipient development of some literary techniques. In his hermeneutics, he emphasizes the priority of the literal sense of Scripture, although this thesis does not lead him to presen…Read more
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30Brentano as Interpreter of AristotleIn Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.), Proceedings of the World Congress Aristotle 2400 Years. pp. 713-719. 2019.Brentano began and ended his career by studying Aristotle. His first and last books are dedicated to this philosopher and represent the most part of what he managed to publish in life. Therefore, his efforts as an interpreter of Aristotle should not be relativized. In these pages, I intend to expose Brentano’s position regarding the method of study of Aristotle, which also will provide a good overview of his way to understand the thinking of the Greek philosopher.
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1222La dialéctica y la metafísica según santo Tomás de Aquinode Medio Aevo 13 279-294. 2019.In these pages the author intends to examine the idea, quite widespread among Aristotle’s recent scholars, that the method of metaphysics were mainly dialectical. This problem is investigated in Aquinas, who decidedly denies that metaphysics uses dialectics because it just provides probability. Metaphysics, unlike dialectics, is not only based on the being of reason but also on the natural being. Therefore, it does not simply constitute a rational game about quiddities, but it studies things in …Read more
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708Antonio Millán-Puelles: una filosofía realista de la idealidadla Albolafia 17 65-101. 2019.This article intends to describe the central themes of Millán-Puelles' thought. The fundamental intuitions of his youth remain over the course of his life and mark a line of creative and personal thinking between Phenomenology and classical philosophy, mainly Thomism. He elaborates a metaphysics of knowledge with a vigorous defence of spontaneous realism. His defence of the real leads him to grant special importance to the study of the unreal. Likewise, he is interested in practical problems, wh…Read more
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583An Alternative Model for Understanding Anaxagoras’ MixturePhilosophisches Jahrbuch 126 7-26. 2019.For Anaxagoras, both before the beginning of the world and in the present, “all is together” and “everything is in everything.” Various modern interpretations abound regarding the identity of this “mixture.” It has been explained as an aggregation of particles or as a continuous “fusion” of different sorts of ingredients. However—even though they are not usually recognized as a distinct group—there are a number of other scholars who, without seemingly knowing each other, have offered a different…Read more
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717La nouvelle métaphysique thomisteIn Claude Brunier-Coulin & Jean-François Petit (eds.), Le statut actuel de la métaphysique. Actes du colloque des 6-8 juillet 2018, Orizons. pp. 339-365. 2019.In this paper the author deals with the new development of Metaphysics among American Thomists. In contrast to Gilson, there is revaluation of 'essence' among some authors, insofar form has an instrumental role for the existence of things (see e.g. Lawrence Dewan). The example of Stephen L. Brock is presented as an alternative to the excessive Apophaticism of some interpretations of Aquinas such as the one of J.-L. Marion.
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267This unpublished manuscript of the Spanish Dominican Domingo Báñez reflects his personal account of the proceedings held during July 1602 in Valladolid in defense of his own doctrine against suspicious theses formulated by some Jesuits from Alcalá de Henares the previous March. The Jesuits denied that the adhesion of faith to the Roman Pontiff included him as a specific man, e.g. Pope Clement VIII. In support of their thesis, they provided the authority of Báñez. The Dominican theologian clarifi…Read more
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226Tomás de Vío, Cayetano. Sobre la providencia y el hadoRevista Española de Teología 78 459-500. 2018.Spanish translation of Cajetan’s commentary on quaestiones 22 and 116 of the first part of the 'Summa'. The translator precedes the text of Cajetan with a broad introduction in which he compares the views of the author with the interpretation of the same problems by Báñez in the context of the 'De Auxiliis' controversy. According to the translator, Báñez would have been more faithful to the thought of Saint Thomas than Cajetan. However, the core of the contribution of this great commentator will…Read more
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1385La sabiduría en san Alberto MagnoIn Liliana B. Irizar (ed.), La sabiduría en Tomás de Aquino. Inspiración y reflexión. Perspectivas filosóficas y teológicas, Universidad Sergio Arboleda. pp. 33-53. 2017.Albert the Great understands wisdom principally as a characteristic of human science, not principally as a feature of revealed theology. The article deals with the texts of his comments on Nicomachean Ethics and Metaphysics in order to know how he understands this knowledge.
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414La inteligencia ('noesis') en Diógenes de ApoloniaAnuario Filosófico 51 (3): 439-460. 2018.The philosophy of Diogenes pays special attention to knowledge. Diogenes bases his thought on the well-known thesis of Parmenides which identifies einai and noein, combining it with the nous of Anaxagoras. According to Diogenes, the intellect (noesis) is embodied in the formal features of things and therefore is powerful, like the nous of Anaxagoras. The aim of the following pages is to show, in confrontation with Laks, that noesis does not homogenize the cosmos, but rather it diversifies it.
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1085El aristotelismo en los primeros autores cristianos griegosIn Pablo de Paz Amérigo & Ignacio Sanz Extremeño (eds.), Eulogía. Estudios sobre cristianismo primitivo. Homenaje a Mercedes López Salvá, Escolar Y Mayo. pp. 541-565. 2018.The author tries to expose the reception of Aristotelian philosophy among the first Greek Churchfathers, from St. Justin to the 'Refutatio'. There are some interesting points concerning the doxographical tradition, specially relating to the Aristotelian idea of God.
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330La noción de homeomería en AnaxágorasIn Konstantinos Boudouris (ed.), Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, Greek Philosophical Society. pp. 65-69. 2018.Aristotle introduced in the history of the reception of Anaxagoras the term ‘homoiomerous’. This word refers to substances whose parts are similar to each other and to the whole. Although Aristotle’s explanations can be puzzling, the term ‘homoiomerous’ may explain an authentic aspect of Anaxagoras’ doctrine reflected in the fragments of his work. Perhaps one should find a specific meaning for the term ‘homoiomerous’ in Anaxagoras, somewhat different from the one present in Aristotle. This requi…Read more
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841Albert the Great on the Eucharist as True FoodAnnales Theologici 32 141-152. 2018.Christian theology on the Eucharist, already since the Gospel of John refers to the scarcity and abundance of food, by linking this Sacrament to the hunger suffered by the Israelites in the desert and their further satiation with manna from heaven. Saint Albert the Great, in his reflection on the Eucharist, includes several ideas taken from his scientific knowledge, especially from Aristotle. These considerations build one of his personal contributions to theological understanding of the spiritu…Read more
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348Franz Brentano et la néoscolastique allemandeIn Claude Brunier-Coulin (ed.), Philosophies et théologies au XXIe siècle, Orizons. pp. 281-308. 2018.A look to the neoscholastic roots of Brentano and his reception of Aquinas. German Neoscholasticism helped Brentano to bild a "scientific" philosophy and to defend the liberty of thought. After some years as a catholic priest, he believed that Catholic faith was implausible and he tried to support his own position through a bad exegesis of Aquinas.
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1264Estudios metafísicos: Selección de ensayos sobre Tomás de AquinoUniversidad Sergio Arboleda. 2017.Here you can download Torrijos' contribution to this book: the general Presentation and the Introduction to the second part.
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229La noción de persona en san Alberto MagnoIn Víctor M. Tirado (ed.), Jornada de filosofía 2015. La persona, Ediciones Universidad San Dámaso. pp. 163-190. 2018.A little essay on the notion of person in Albert the Great. He bases on Alexander of Hales and develops his notion of person from the classical definition of Boethius.
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460Providence in St. Albert the GreatRevista Ciências da Religião: História E Sociedade 14 14-44. 2016.In these pages, we expose the main traits of St. Albert the Great’s doctrine of providence and fate, considered by Palazzo the keystone of his philosophical system. To describe it we examine his systematic works, primarily his Summa of Theology. His discussion follows clearly the guidelines of the Summa of Alexander of Hales, in order to delve into the set of problems faced over the centuries by theological tradition. Albert also restates the reflections of different authors like Boethius or Sai…Read more
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1897Alexander of Aphrodisias on fate, providence and natureForum. Supplement to Acta Philosophica 3 7-18. 2017.To study the influence of divinity on cosmos, Alexander uses the notions of ‘fate’ and ‘providence,’ which were common in the philosophy of his time. In this way, he provides an Aristotelian interpretation of the problems related to such concepts. In the context of this discussion, he offers a description of ‘nature’ different from the one that he usually regards as the standard Aristotelian notion of nature, i.e. the intrinsic principle of motion and rest. The new coined concept is a ‘cosmic’ n…Read more
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712La noción de providencia según San JustinoIn Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa, Mercedes López Salvá, Nuria Sánchez Madrid & Ignacio Sanz Extremeño (eds.), Los orígenes del cristianismo en la filosofía, la literatura y el arte II, Dykinson. pp. 271-290. 2018.This article examines the notion of providence in the thought of St Justin martyr. First, it is shown the relevance of the question for St Justin, since it was an important topic in his time. Secondly, the comparison to the philosophical context provides a more complete view of St Justin’s position. Thirdly, the notion of providence is considered in the whole of St Justins’ thought. So, the author can conclude that Christian philosophy requires a particular providence which nevertheless allows h…Read more
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651Suárez y la premoción físicaCuadernos Salmantinos de Filosofía 44 71-94. 2017.This article intends to examine the problematic question of the ontological status of “physical premotion,” that is, the divine motion of created free will. This idea was developed by the Dominican Báñez and was strongly criticised by the Jesuit Suárez. Suárez’s description of physical premotion shows that he gradually conditioned the debate in a way which compelled to see the premotion as an entity different from the creator and the free agent. Several texts of Suárez are also reviewed in discu…Read more
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311La providencia en san Alberto MagnoEspíritu 66 275-302. 2017.In these pages, we expose the main traits of the doctrine of providence of Saint Albert the Great, according to his systematic works, mainly his Summa of Theology. His discussion follows clearly the guidelines of the Summa of Alexander of Hales, in order to delve into the set of problems faced by theological tradition over the centuries. Albert also restates the reflections of different authors like Boethius or Saint John of Damascus and he gives his personal solution to the complex questions of…Read more
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45Historia de la filosofía moderna y contemporáneaEdiciones Universidad San Dámaso. 2017.Unidad didáctica I Tema 1. Rasgos de la modernidad 1. 1. Características del proyecto moderno 1. 2. Contradicciones internas del proyecto moderno Tema 2. El paradigma del conocimiento científico: racionalismo, empirismo e idealismo trascendental 2. 1. Descartes 2. 2. Hume 2. 3. Kant Tema 3. El paradigma del contrato: Hobbes, Locke y Rousseau 3. 1. Hobbes 3. 2. Locke 3. 3. Rousseau Tema 4. El paradigma de los sentimientos y el determinismo: de Pascal a Kant 4. 1. Pascal 4. 2. Spinoz…Read more
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791Propuestas de Franz Brentano para una correcta interpretación de AristótelesPensamiento 73 (275): 21-44. 2017.A considerable part of the work of Brentano from his youth to the end of his life is concerned with the thought of Aristotle. His peculiar way to access Aristotle makes of Brentano a rather eccentric figure among the nineteenth and early twentieth century’s Aristotelian scholarship. On the one hand, he doesn’t reject emphasizing the use of philological and historical resources in order to understand ancient texts and indeed he makes extensive use of them himself; on the other hand, he believes t…Read more
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso
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Universidad Eclesiástica San DámasoAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |