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This paper analyses Foucault's thesis of the reduction of philosophy to a form of knowledge in Descartes and the consequent abandonment of classical spirituality, that is, of philosophy conceived as a way of life based on self-care. From here, as well as observing that Foucault himself will qualify this thesis, it will be shown that in Descartes philosophy is still essentially linked to spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is an attempt to show that the philosophical distinction between "rational being" and "use of reason" lies at the core of Francisco de Vitoria's position and offers the legitimacy foundation for its political-legal development. A careful examination and analysis of Vitoria's Relectiones brings to light a variety of arguments (anthropological-philosophical, epistemological, and ethical), all of which presuppose a universal concept of human being. The analysis reveals that such concept serves, in turn, as the foundation for a universal concept of law, which concerns every human being, and explains why the Vitorian view would reach global acceptance and repercussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I will try to demonstrate how two fundamental notions in Levinas' ethics, the of idea God and responsibility, can be understood respectively as actual and potential infinity, according to the classic distinction suggested by Aristotle. In addition, I will show that both infinities can exist (something that classical metaphysics did not admit) as long as they are comprehended from an ethics of alterity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jacques Derrida's philosophy is known for being methodologically structured by the question of inheritance as a general form of historicity, which implies a complication of the traditional ways of understanding historical time. In this paper we show how this way of conceiving historicity in terms of inheritance and tradition is shaped by three developmental phases: first, it has its antecedents in Husserl's phenomenology; subsequently, it is developed through the notions of trace and mourning, in relation to Levinas, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Hegel's philosophy; finally, it is formulated as a logic of haunting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this monograph is to create crossed dialogs or to recover some of the dialogs that are the warp and woof of Levinas and Derrida's thought. This polyphonic issue offers the opportunity to listen to some of the voices with, against, from, by, for which these two philosophers of otherness wrote. Thus, those who read the papers included in this monograph will not find articles that are dual or marked by binomials. Instead, they will be confronted with possibilities, traces, faces, debts, duels, ghosts, and alterities that speak from the margins with others about the other. They will find crossed dialogs on otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship of the French philosopher Roland Barthes (1915-1980) to religion, specifically Christianity. For this purpose, I will examine the presence of religion as motivation, object, and theme in Barthes’s philosophical works as well as some of his personal writings. In conclusion, I will show that Christianity is present throughout his work and has importance for understanding his perspective as an author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his Expositio in XII libros Meta-physicae Aristotelis Antonius Andreas offers a Scotist alternative to the homonymous work by Aquinas and in so doing attempts to surpass it. In the Expositio Andreas refutes some interpretations of Thomas Aquinas. The aim of our paper is to analyze Bartolomeo Spina’s response to Andreas’ criticisms. The Defensiones by Spina were published in 1517 and were later integrated into the Commentaria in XII libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis by Aquinas that Spina edited several times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]