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Maria Sanchez

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Deptford, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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  •  196
    Los cuatro elementos naturales en la mitología precristiana rusa
    'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de Las Religiones 9 97-106. 2004.
    This paper has a double purpose: firstly, to assess the importance of seiðr magic rituals and of its practitioners within the social and mythological framework of Old norse-icelandic Literature. Secondly, by means of the analysis of certain scenes in The Saga of Gísli Súrsson, i aim to demonstrate that the inclusion of magic-religious motifs in the Sagas of icelanders has a triple objective: to provide a model to help understand apparently inexplicable phenomena, to intensify the tragic tone of …Read more
    Philosophy of Religion
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    El concepto de persona. Una relectura de la propuesta de P. F. Strawson
    Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) 32 (2): 73-87. 2008.
    This article offers a review of the chapter dedicated by Strawson to the concept of a person in Individuals. Characteristics given to the concept of person by Strawson are criticized by Bernard Williams. What I set out to show is that this criticism can be answered by reviewing: a) how Strawson understands that the concept of a person is primitive, b) what are the implications of affirming the primitiveness of such concept, and, mainly c) what this philosopher understands by referring
    P. F. Strawson