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Gorgias de Leontini: Elogio de Helena, Autodefensa de Palamedes, Sobre lo que-no-esEdiciones Tácitas. 2023.Traducción al español y edición del griego de los textos del orador y filósofo presocrático Gorgias de Leontini.
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269Determinismo y responsabilidad moral en AristótelesIn Denis Coitinho & João Hobuss (eds.), Sobre Responsabilidade, Serie Dissertatio Filosofía. pp. 55-90. 2014.
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130Los límites de la compasión: responsabilidad moral y el dictum socrático 'nadie obra mal involuntariamente'In Jaime Araos (ed.), Platón y Aristóteles: Nuevas perspectivas de Metafísica, Ética y Epistemología., Thémata Editorial. pp. 123-134. 2019.
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28Aristotle on Compulsive Affections and the Natural Capacity to WithstandApeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 56 (4): 827-843. 2023.Aristotle recognises preternatural affections in numerous passages from his ethical writings, where he claims that some desires and emotions are beyond human nature, too strong for our nature to withstand, and that an action motivated by them is συγγνωμονικὸν: something excusable. However, there has been some reluctance among scholars to explicitly acknowledge that Aristotle recognised preternatural affections as a category of excuse in its own right. The aim of this paper is to remove the obsta…Read more
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235El inmoralismo de Trasímaco y la pleonexíaAnales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 39 (2): 305-315. 2022.
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248A Peripatetic argument for the intrinsic value of human life: Alexander of Aphrodisias' Ethical Problems IApeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 54 (3): 367-384. 2021.In this article I argue for the thesis that Alexander's main argument, in Ethical Problems I, is an attempt to block the implication drawn by the Stoics and other ancient philosophers from the double potential of use exhibited by human life, a life that can be either well or badly lived. Alexander wants to resist the thought that this double potential of use allows the Stoics to infer that human life, in itself, or by its own nature, is neither good nor bad. Furthermore, I shall argue that Alexa…Read more
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27Aristotle on Personal EnmityAncient Philosophy 42 (1): 215-231. 2022.In this paper we develop Aristotle’s remarks about personal enmity (ἔχθρα) into a systematic account, with a view to determining whether personal enmity has a role to play in the good life. We argue that such an account can be obtained by examining Aristotle’s claims about hatred, and that this examination reveals that there is a significant place for enmity in Aristotle’s conception of the good life.
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188A short notice on Heinaman's account of Aristotle's definition of kinesis in Physica IIIJournal of Ancient Philosophy 4 (2): 1-5. 2010.
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218Aristotle's appraisability compatibilism and accountability incompatibilismIn M. R. & Zingano Salles P. Destrée (ed.), What is Up to Us? Studies on Agency and Responsibility in ancient Philosophy., Academia Verlag. pp. 91-106. 2014.
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19Human Life as a Grounding Basic Good in the New Natural Law EthicsProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 12 91-95. 2018.In this paper I critically examine the key normative claim of the so-called ‘new Natural Law ethics’, namely, the claim that being alive, in the biological sense of the word, has an intrinsically valuable standing. This claim is at the basis of the absolute condemnation of all acts aiming at destroying such a good. After explaining the meaning of this fundamental normative claim, I engage in a dialectical argument between the suicidal person and the new Natural Law ethicists in order to show tha…Read more
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316La ética calicleanaAnales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 36 (1): 11-28. 2019.The purpose of this article is to offer a reconstruction of the moral theory defended by Callicles in Plato’s Gorgias, aided by other contemporary texts that contribute to explain and refine such a theory. The first step of this reconstruction is to show that Callicles offers a perspectivist theory of moral judgements, according to which moral judgements can be issued from two radically distinct perspectives, the contractual and the natural one. The second step is to show …Read more
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389Another Dissimilarity between Moral Virtue and Skills: An Interpretation of Nicomachean Ethics II 4In Marcelo D. Boeri, Yasuhira Y. Kanayama & Jorge Mittelmann (eds.), Soul and Mind in Greek Thought. Psychologial Issues in Plato and Aristotle, Springer. pp. 199-215. 2018.In Nicomachean Ethics II 4 Aristotle famously raises a puzzle concerning moral habituation, and he seems to dissolve it by recourse to the analogy between moral virtue and skills. A new interpretation of the chapter is offered on the basis of an important evaluative dissimilarity then noted by Aristotle, one almost universally disregarded by interpreters of the chapter. I elucidate the nature of the dissimilarity in question and argue for its paramount importance for understanding Aristotle’s co…Read more
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243The diagram of moral vices in eudemian ethics II 3Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 20 93-122. 2017.
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22Dualismo socráticoRevista de Filosofía 74 55-72. 2018.Este artículo se propone mostrar, en contra de las interpretaciones dominantes, que Platón debió tempranamente postular la supervivencia del alma como un sujeto independiente de daño y beneficio moral con el objeto de completar su defensa de la ética socrática – en particular el principio de Soberanía de la Virtud, central en diálogos tempranos como la Apología, el Critón y el Gorgias. Al dualismo metafísico que resulta de este postulado le denomino ‘dualismo socrático’, para diferenciarlo del d…Read more
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666El Encomio de Helena y la Responsabilidad MoralMéthexis 25 (1): 35-50. 2012.In his Encomium of Helen, Gorgias provides us with a variety of arguments in order to show that Helen was not to be held accountable for having eloped with Paris. The main thesis advanced in this article is that these arguments, despite their apparent diversity, are given a unitary structure by the concept of force, and by the analogy that Gorgias estalishes between persuasion, the emotions, and sense-perception on the one hand, and this concept on the other. If this argument is successful, it s…Read more
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46Aristotle's Ethics and Moral ResponsibilityCambridge University Press. 2012.Aristotle's Ethics develops a complex theory of the qualities which make for a good human being and for several decades there has been intense discussion about whether Aristotle's theory of voluntariness, outlined in the Ethics, actually delineates what modern thinkers would recognize as a theory of moral responsibility. Javier Echeñique presents a novel account of Aristotle's discussion of voluntariness in the Ethics, arguing - against the interpretation by Arthur Adkins and that inspired by Pe…Read more
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60Human Life as a Basic Good: A Dialectical CritiqueIdeas Y Valores 65 (161): 61-87. 2016.In this article I argue that the fundamental axiological claim of the New Natural Law Theory, according to which human life has an intrinsically valuable, cannot be defended within the framework assumed by the New Natural Law Theory itself, and further, that such a claim turns out to be false relative to a wider eudaimonistic framework that the Natural Law theorist is committed to accept. I do this this by adopting a dialectical standpoint which excludes any assumptions that could be denied by t…Read more
Javier Echenique
Universidad San Sebastián
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Universidad San SebastiánProfessor
Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |