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A Farewell to Homo Sacer? Sovereign Power and Bare Life in Agamben’s Coronavirus Commentary
2021
AbstractThe article addresses Giorgio Agamben’s critical commentary on the global governance of the Covid-19 pandemic as a paradigm of his political thought. While Agamben’s comments have been criticized as exaggerated and conspiratorial, they arise from the conceptual constellation that he has developed starting from the first volume of his Homo Sacer series. At the centre of this constellation is the relation between the concepts of sovereign power and bare life, whose articulation in the figure of homo sacer Agamben traces from the Antiquity to the present. We shall demonstrate that any such articulation is impossible due to the belonging of these concepts to different planes, respective…
Why do we reject the wisdom from the past? Reflections on the practical dimension of values in historical education
2020
W czasach szybkich zmian i dużej ilości informacji wiele osób, zwłaszcza młodych, nie przywiązuje większej wagi do przeszłości. Dzieje się tak pomimo, że edukacja historyczna rozwija intelektualnie i duchowo, budując tożsamość jednostki i narodu oraz pomagając zrozumieć problemy teraźniejszości. Edukacja historyczna to zbiór wielu czynników, które generalnie wiążą się z wykorzystywaniem osiągnięć naszych przodków oraz ewolucją ich postaw. W edukacji historycznej wartości te zajmują ważne miejsce. Historia pozwala nam zrozumieć zachowanie innych ludzi, ich emocje i potrzeby. W historii bardzo ważne jest przestrzeganie norm i zasad tolerancji oraz demokracji. Wartości edukacji historycznej bu…
L'historien comme chiffonnier...
2019
Unity in Crisis : Protometaphysical and Postmetaphysical Decisions
2014
Perceptual Self-Awareness in Seneca, Augustine, and Olivi
2013
This article traces the philosophical idea of self-perception from the times of ancient Stoicism to the thirteenth century by analyzing the views of Seneca, Augustine, and Olivi. The central argument is that they defend the same idea according to which self-preservation and the appropriate use of one’s body requires awareness thereof, despite the obvious contextual differences and the uncertainty of direct historical connections between the authors. They think that this kind of self-awareness does not belong only to human beings, because irrational animals need to perceive their bodies, the functions of their bodily parts, and to perceive themselves as living beings in order to act appropri…
Epistemologia empirista sense dogmes
1989
Josep Lluís Blasco critica en aquest article la concepció fonamentista del coneixement, d’arrel cartesiana i basada, sobretot, en el dogma empirista que afirma que els enunciats, als que classifica segons la dicotomia analític-sintètic, poden tenir confirmació o refutació aïlladament, en suposar un atomisme semàntic que defensa que tot enunciat amb significat és reductible a un enunciat sobre la experiència immediata. Per tal de realitzar la seua crítica, que té com a blanc principal l’empirisme tradicional, el Wittgenstein del Tractatus i el positivisme lògic, Blasco es basa en Quine, Tarsky i el segon Wittgenstein i defensa un holisme semàntic, ontològic i epistemològic. Segons el holisme…
Plato and Antisthenes in the Phaedo: A Reflexive Reading. Part One
2019
The purpose of this study is not so much to show the presence of Antisthenes in the dialogue, but rather to examine what Plato alludes to. The controversy over ideas between the two Socratics is historically very well-attested, as can already be seen in the Cratylus. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that this controversy must have affected Plato when he was writing a dialogue in which the importance of ideas and his new logic is undeniable. Hence, this paper will investigate the following question: what impact could Antisthenes’ denominative and definitory logic have on the equally denominative and definitory logic presented in the Phaedo given that the latter work in all probability preced…
Populism as a pathological form of politics of recognition
2018
This article combines the neo-Hegelian theory of recognition with an analysis of social pathologies to show how the populist formulations of political goals in struggles for recognition are – despite their potential positive motivating force – socially pathological. The concept of recognition, combined with the idea of social pathologies, can thus be used to introduce normative considerations into the populism analysis. In this article it is argued that, although populism is useful in the sense that it aims to ameliorate real experienced lack of recognition through fostering political movements, it is also harmful. The simplified populist representations of collective identities are often g…
Descartes: Ethics and Politics
2017
Este artículo analiza la moral y la filosofía política cartesiana. Defiende que la posición de Descartes en estos ámbitos es congruente con sus concepciones metafísicas y físicas. Una posición que busca un difícil equilibrio entre individualismo y altruismo, vida retirada y compromiso social. This paper analyses Cartesian ethics and politics. It defends that Descartes's position in these areas coincides with his metaphysical and physical conceptions, searching a difficult equilibrium between individualism and altruism, quiet life and social commitment.
Sentience and the Origins of Consciousness: From Cartesian Duality to Markovian Monism
2020
This essay addresses Cartesian duality and how its implicit dialectic might be repaired using physics and information theory. Our agenda is to describe a key distinction in the physical sciences that may provide a foundation for the distinction between mind and matter, and between sentient and intentional systems. From this perspective, it becomes tenable to talk about the physics of sentience and &lsquo