Pablo Rodriguez

El presente artículo se propone ofrecer una introducción a la relación entre Kierkegaard y Schopenhauer. La primera parte expone las críticas del filósofo danés al autor de El mundo como voluntad y representación. La segunda parte analiza las interpretaciones en castellano dedicadas al estudio del vínculo entre ambos filósofos. La primera parte concluye con las eventuales respuestas del filósofo alemán a las objeciones de Kierkegaard. La segunda parte finaliza con una serie de apreciaciones para el análisis conjunto de ambos pensadores.

The article explores the notion of "self-love" in Kierkegaard's Either / Or. B, the ethical pseudonymous, proposes not only a negative concept of "self-love" or "egoism", but also a positive concept of "self-love". Without "self love", the authentic personality can not be developed: to love oneself means "choose oneself". By “choosing oneself” the individual integrates the different aspects of his personality into a unity, finds his own duties and sets the basis for a true relationship with the world and the other.

A pesar de la extraordinaria variedad de estudios sobre la filosofía de Kierkegaard, su concepto de pudor no ha recibido suficiente atención. Mi trabajo tiene como objetivo presentar y analizar el concepto de pudor de Kierkegaard, tal como se desarrolla en El concepto de angustia (1844) del seudónimo Vigilius Haufniensis. Primero, intento brindar una comprensión de algunos de los temas principales del libro de Haufniensis (espíritu, tarea, angustia). Segundo, examino lo que manifiesta el fenómeno psicológico del pudor sobre la estructura de la subjetividad del ser humano.

Background The globalization of medical science carries for doctors worldwide a correlative duty to deepen their understanding of patients' cultural contexts and religious backgrounds, in order to satisfy each as a unique individual. To become better informed, practitioners may turn to MedLine, but it is unclear whether the information found there is an accurate representation of culture and religion. To test MedLine's representation of this field, we chose the topic of death and dying in the three major monotheistic religions. Methods We searched MedLine using PubMed in order to retrieve and thematically analyze full-length scholarly journal papers or case reports dealing with religious traditions and end-of-life care. Our search consisted of a string of words that included the most common denominations of the three religions, the standard heading terms used by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL), and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) used by the National Library of Medicine. Eligible articles were limited to English-language papers with an abstract. Results We found that while a bibliographic search in MedLine on this topic produced instant results and some valuable literature, the aggregate reflected a selection bias. American writers were over-represented given the global prevalence of these religious traditions. Denominationally affiliated authors predominated in representing the Christian traditions. The Islamic tradition was under-represented. Conclusion MedLine's capability to identify the most current, reliable and accurate information about purely scientific topics should not be assumed to be the same case when considering the interface of religion, culture and end-of-life care.

Euler's contributions to differential equations are so comprehensive and rigorous that any contemporary textbook on the subject can be regarded as a copy of Euler's Institutionum Calculi Integralis. Of course, Euler's work is an improvement of that of Leibniz, the Bernoullis, Newton and so many others before them, but still it's so outstanding that will be used in this paper as a reference to account for every previous or subsequent development in ODEs. Maybe Euler did not discovered differential equations, but he did not discovered less differential equations than Newton and Leibniz had discovered differential calculus a few decades before.

The article criticises Reale's esoteric interpretation of Plato from a hermeneutical point of view. Reale speaks of doctrines, written and unwritten, where we only have two traditions: direct and indirect. Plato's own works build a corpus and a collection of testimonies from different authors cannot be considered as interpretatively superior. To be written down is essential to interpretation and the text cannot be fixed on a concrete reading, because textuality means openness to new understandings. In this way, the attempt to reread Plato's dialogs in the light of this indirect tradition is to reduce the Platonic corpus to a mere pretext.

El pensamiento de Kierkegaard fue fuertemente influenciado por los filósofos idealistas alemanes. Mientras que los especialistas estudiaron el vínculo filosófico entre Hegel y el danés, la relación de Kierkegaard con Fichte permaneció en silencio. El propósito de este artículo es desarrollar una nueva perspectiva de la relación Fichte-Kierkegaard. Primero, exploramos las lecturas que Kierkegaard realizó sobre el sistema de Fichte. Segundo, discutimos las nuevas interpretaciones globales de la filosofía kierkegaardeana y el puesto que en ellas ocupa Fichte. Tercero, mostramos que el concepto fichteano de Aufforderung está a la base de la teoría del yo expuesta por Kierkegaard en sus últimos libros.

Delusions are one of the most classical symptoms described in schizophrenia. However, despite delusions are often emotionally charged, they have been investigated using tasks involving non-affective material, such as the Beads task. In this study we compared 30 patients with schizophrenia experiencing delusions with 32 matched controls in their pattern of responses to two versions of the Beads task within a Bayesian framework. The two versions of the Beads task consisted of one emotional and one neutral, both with ratios of beads of 60:40 and 80:20, considered, respectively, as the “difficult” and “easy” variants of the task. Results indicate that patients showed a greater deviation from the normative model, especially in the 60:40 ratio, suggesting that more inaccurate probability estimations are more likely to occur under uncertainty conditions. Additionally, both patients and controls showed a greater deviation in the emotional version of the task, providing evidence of a reasoning bias modulated by the content of the stimuli. Finally, a positive correlation between patients’ deviation and delusional symptomatology was found. Impairments in the 60:40 ratio with emotional content was related to the amount of disruption in life caused by delusions. These results contribute to the understanding of how cognitive mechanisms interact with characteristics of the task in the context of delusional thinking. These findings might be used to inform improved intervention programs in the domain of inferential reasoning.

Where exactly in the brain is the thought of the ocean? Where the image of the horizon, the sound of the waves and the taste of salt water? Where exactly is the memory of a sunny day at the beach, and where the feeling of lightheartedness? In other words: How does one get from mere brain activity, even in principle, to something so different as subjective experience and consciousness? To answer this question, C-Pattern Theory introduces a new approach and suggests an elegant explanation. But that is not all. Because C-Pattern Theory equally includes what actually follows from this explanation: A whole range of profound implications and far-reaching possibilities – and ultimately a new perspective on consciousness and reality.

This work deals with the particular nature of consciousness in comparison to matter, as well as with the question of how conscious subjective experience can be possible at all. Based on a step-by-step derivation, a new approach is introduced and a theory for a possible explanation is proposed, named C-Pattern Theory. The statements and implications resulting from C-Pattern Theory reveal new perspectives on elementary aspects of reality and open up new possibilities with regard to fundamental questions.