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The Destructive Passions of Life and the Soul: An Interdisciplinary View
1996
Man is a marvelous but also a mysterious creature. In spite of the surprising progress of science and technology, in spite of indubitable success in the utilization of the forces of nature, our crimes against nature as well as against man continue. One of the latest phenomena of this kind is the cruel conflict in the former territory of Yugoslavia.
Being Opposite. On the translation of antikeimena in Aristotle's De anima
2012
The main concern of this article is the interpretation of De Anima II.4 415a14-23, and the particular way by which it is generally translated by modern editors. Almost all modern translations adopt the two locutions - \emph{objects} and \emph{correlative objects} - to translate the Greek word \antikeimena. But this choice is not neutral, nor it is without consequences for the understanding of the text.
Movimento, anima, intelletto. Dal De anima al De motu animalium di Aristotele
2014
Aristotle’s Concept of Friendship and Plato’s Structure of Human Soul
2018
Obiecta, opposita, antikeimena nel De anima di Aristotele
2012
The word antikéimena is often translated by modern editors of De anima with the expression "correlative objects", rather than as "opposites". The aim of this paper is to present some arguments against this translation, insomuch as it disregards the link established with the concept of opposition between De anima and the Aristotelian theory of motion and change.
El alma nunca piensa sin fantasmas. Sobre el concepto de psique en Castoriadis
2012
La antropología filosófica de Castoriadis postula la imaginación como facultad productora de sentido, más radical que la propia racionalidad, y considera indisociables lo psíquico y lo social-histórico. Se trata de una filosofía de la praxis, que aspira al desarrollo de una subjetividad reflexiva y deliberante. Combina para ello aportaciones del psicoanálisis con la reflexión filosófica en torno al problema del sentido y el proyecto de autonomía. Sin embargo, la tradición filosófica no ha considerado la importancia de la imaginación tanto en la constitución autónoma del sujeto como de las sociedades. La autonomía (psicológica y social) debe estar vinculada a las posibilidades de ruptura de …
Is our brain hardwired to produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive God? A systematic review on the role of the brain in mediating religious…
2009
To figure out whether the main empirical question "Is our brain hardwired to believe in and produce God, or is our brain hardwired to perceive and experience God?" is answered, this paper presents systematic critical review of the positions, arguments and controversies of each side of the neuroscientific–theological debate and puts forward an integral view where the human is seen as a psycho-somatic entity consisting of the multiple levels and dimensions of human existence (physical, biological, psychological, and spiritual reality), allowing consciousness/ mind/spirit and brain/body/matter to be seen as different sides of the same phenomenon, neither reducible to each other. The emergence …
Tropes of Travel in Bernardine Evaristo’s Novels
2011
This paper is informed by an interpretative framework in which the theoretical paradigms of Cultural, Gender, (Post-)colonial and Tourism studies are interwoven. It is claimed that fostering a specific kind of literary and cultural tourism, centred on (post-)colonial authors’ works, might emerge as a political practice able to reshape the self-fashioning of Western European cultural heritage in non-essentialized terms. Consequently, this would also help promote cross-cultural exchanges. In this respect, Lara (1997), The Emperor’s Babe (2001) and Soul Tourists (2005), the first three novels by the London-born Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo, appear to be extremely relevant literary…
Christian Hoburg and Seventeenth-century Mysticism
1967
The subject of the present paper is only seemingly a national German development—it has, in fact, to do with the universal situation of the Christian Church in modern times. The question of mysticism runs through almost all denominations. The imposing French Roman Catholic Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique shows it in every column. We know how important a contribution to Christian preaching and devotional literature was made by the early Greek and Oriental monks, like Ephraem Syrus, Johannes Klimakos and others, how fundamental and lasting theological concepts were developed on mystical lines by Clement of Alexandria and Dionysius the Areopagite, by Bernard of Clairvaux, by…
Un alma enferma. La experiencia religiosa de Wittgenstein a la luz de Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa de William James
2016
Este artículo defiende que Wittgenstein puede ser considerado como un alma enferma a la luz de Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa de William James. Asimismo, se muestra que de la lectura de este libro Wittgen- stein extrajo un ideal religioso que explica varios aspectos de su biografía, su hostilidad a la civilización burguesa y el sentido religioso de su filosofía. This article maintains that Wittgenstein can be seen as a sick soul in the terms of William James" The Varieties of the Religious Experience. It also holds that from the reading of this book Wittgenstein adopted a religious ideal that explains some aspects of his biography, his hostility to bourgeois civilization and the…