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Aristotle’s ›Parva naturalia‹: Text, Translation, and Commentary (edited book)De Gruyter. 2024.
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Aristotle on Becoming Virtuous by Doing Virtuous ActionsPhronesis 61 (1): 3-32. 2016.Aristotle ’s claim that we become virtuous by doing virtuous actions raises a familiar problem: How can we perform virtuous actions unless we are already virtuous? I reject deflationary accounts of the answer given in _Nicomachean Ethics_ 2.4 and argue instead that proper habituation involves doing virtuous actions with the right motive, i.e. for the sake of the noble, even though learners do not yet have virtuous dispositions. My interpretation confers continuity to habituation and explains in …Read more
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Anaxágoras y el Big BangDisputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin 10 131-152. 2021.In order to show the relevance of the Presocratic thinkers, certain achievements are sometimes presented as anticipations of some discoveries made by contemporary science. Anaxagoras’ explanation for the origin of the world in particular has been compared to the Big Bang theory by some scholars. The purpose of this article is to show why this theory is very different from Anaxagoras’ view of the origin of the world. For Anaxagoras, the world does not start from a tiny expanding particle. Rather,…Read more
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Dios y "antropocentrismo" en AristótelesEspíritu 62 (145): 35-55. 2013.
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La causalidad del motor inmóvilHypnos 31 (2): 234-266. 2013.
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Aristotle’s Politics: A Critical Guide (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.Arguably the foundational text of Western political theory, Aristotle's Politics has become one of the most widely and carefully studied works in ethical and political philosophy. This volume of essays offers fresh interpretations of Aristotle's key work and opens new paths for students and scholars to explore. The contributors embrace a variety of methodological approaches that range across the disciplines of classics, political science, philosophy, and ancient history. Their essays illuminate …Read more
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Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism (edited book)De Gruyter. 2020.This volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies in Aristotle and Aristotelianism. Aristotle’s innovative analysis of the nutritive faculty has laid the intellectual foundation for the increasing appreciation of nutrition as a prerequisite for the maintenance of life and health that can be observed in the history of Greek thought. According to Aristotle, apart from nutrition, the nutritive part of the soul is also …Read more
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Dio et divino in AristoteleAcademia Verlag. 2005.
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Revisiting Aristotle’s Fragments: New Essays on the Fragments of Aristotle’s Lost Works (edited book)De Gruyter. 2020.The philosophical and philological study of Aristotle fragments and lost works has fallen somewhat into the background since the 1960’s. This is regrettable considering the different and innovative directions the study of Aristotle has taken in the last decades. This collection of new peer-reviewed essays applies the latest developments and trends of analysis, criticism, and methodology to the study of Aristotle’s fragments. The individual essays use the fragments as tools of interpretation, she…Read more
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Paulo Freire más que nuncaCLACSO. 2020.Paulo Freire es una figura extraordinaria no solo para la educación brasileña, sino también para la educación latinoamericana y mundial. Sus contribuciones no se limitan a una obra escrita, mucho menos a un método, ni siquiera a un paradigma teórico; también refieren a una práctica y, de un modo más general, a una vida dedicada a la educación, una vida hecha escuela, o sea, una manera de ocupar el espacio de educador que lo llevó de viaje por el mundo entero ‘haciendo escuela. Este libro es por …Read more
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Phantasía logistikē in the Configuration of Desire in AristotleIdeas Y Valores 62 (152): 133-158. 2013.RESUMEN En De Anima III 10, Aristóteles introduce la noción de phantasía logistikē como uno de los principios de la acción racional. A partir de la exposición de algunos textos del De Anima y de Ética a Nicómaco, se busca interpretar el lugar de aquel tipo de imaginación en el razonamiento práctico. Para ello, se presenta primero la doctrina aristotélica de los principios de la acción y la problemática de su articulación, y luego se discute el papel de la imaginación racional en la configuración…Read more
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Aristóteles imagina ‘lo que es’. Dialéctica y phantasia en el origen del conocimientoPensamiento 71 (267): 645-658. 2015.Este artículo busca explorar el rendimiento cognoscitivo que tiene la imaginación [φαντασία] en la construcción del punto de partida de las explicaciones científicas. Indicaré cómo la φαντασία sirve de engranaje en la construcción del todo significativo que permite la emergencia del horizonte conceptual de las teorías científicas. Para ello, me referiré en primer lugar a la doctrina tradicional del conocimiento de los principios en Segundos Analíticos II, 19. En segundo lugar, comentaré De Anima…Read more
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Movimiento y forma en AristótelesEdiciones Universidad de Navarra. 2007.
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How Aristotle’s Theory of Education Has Been Studied in Our CenturyStudia Classica 3 21-67. 2012.
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Aristotle on the common senseOxford University Press. 2007.I. The framework. 1, Aristotle's project and methods. 2, The perceptual capacity of the soul. 3, The sensory apparatus. 4, The common sense and the related capacities -- II. The terminology. 1, Overlooked occurrences of the phrase 'common sense'. 2, De anima III.1 425a27. 3, De partibus animalium IV.10 686a31. 4, De memoria et reminiscentia 1 450a10. 5, De anima III.7 431b5. 6, Conclusions on the terminology -- III. Functions of the common sense. 1, Simultaneous perception and cross-modal bindin…Read more
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Aristotle's Criticism of Soul-DivisionAmerican Journal of Philology 108 (4). 1987.
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Actas III Congreso Internacional sobre Innovación Educativa en Filosofía (edited book)Editorial Comares. 2019.
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¿Por qué traducir nuevamente la Metafísica?Co-herencia 15 (58): 19-28. 2018.Esta traducción al español corresponde a la intervención oral del Profesor Enrico Berti en el Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici el 13 junio de 2017. Berti es profesor emérito de la Universidad de Padua, con ocasión de la publicación de su traducción de la Metafísica de Aristóteles en el 2017, en el encuentro de estudio La metafísica de Aristóteles, en el Instituto de Estudios Filosóficos de Nápoles. Considero que al hacerlo se contribuye a la divulgación de esta nueva traducción entre l…Read more
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Aristotle’s “De Anima”: A Critical CommentaryCambridge University Press. 2007.Aristotle's De Anima is the first systematic philosophical account of the soul, which serves to explain the functioning of all mortal living things. In his commentary, Ronald Polansky argues that the work is far more structured and systematic than previously supposed. He contends that Aristotle seeks a comprehensive understanding of the soul and its faculties. By closely tracing the unfolding of the many-layered argumentation and the way Aristotle fits his inquiry meticulously within his scheme …Read more
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The Parts of the Soul (edited book)De Gruyter. 2014.
César Augusto Mora Alonso
Escuela Normal Superior de Cartagena de Indias
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Escuela Normal Superior de Cartagena de IndiasProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |