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"There is no such Revival. Around the Philosophical Disquisitions on Alienation in the late Twentieth Century". The following paper proposes to give arguments to relativize the extensive account that the concept of alienation lost theoretical attention in the field of philosophy during the eighties of the last century, and that a revival of the study of the concept occurred in the nineties. The conclusion is that there was no such loss of attention, but that furthermore, the presumed premises in the discussion concerning alienation from the nineties up to the present were delineated during the eighties. This conclusion has two supporters: the type of approach regarding alienation carried out by analytical Marxism and the philosophical incursions into the concept in the context of North American sociology. Based on this, the text offers a systematization of the history of the philosophical study of the concept in two sections or stages. And it concerns itself with two -and not three- stages because, for what was argued, philosophy did not stop talking about alienation in the eighties, although it did so to a much lesser extent than before (specifically, during the sixties and seventies, considered the boom in the philosophical treatment of alienation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work of Father Pedro José Márquez has been little studied. The most accessible histories and studies of Novohispano thought do not include it, although there has nonetheless been a memory and criticism of the "mexican doctor". Aesthetics is understood, in general and properly speaking, the branch of philosophy that focuses on the study of (own) sensibility, which, guided by the intellect, is the device with which beauty is captured. So the Aesthetics is, in the first place, philosophy of the sensibility and philosophy of beauty. But the Aesthetic connects with the arts. So, Aesthetics, secondly, is philosophy of art. This is the path that Father Pedro José Márquez followed. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the Jesuit Father's Aesthetics, especially in his speech entitled On the beautiful in general, is a philosophy of sensibility, beauty and art. The theoretical and practical resources provided by Analogical Hermeneutics will be taken advantage of. This work will be divided into two parts. In the first, the contexts of On the beautiful in general are presented; and, in the second, the Aesthetics of the Jesuit father will be treated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will present the problem of virtuality from a philosophical perspective to think contemporary forms of understanding of the term related to technological developments in recent history. This perspective pretends to establish a thoughtful critique of the levity with which some concepts related to virtuality (such as "possibility", "potential", "reality", "actual", "cyberspace", "artificial intelligence", etc...) are taken. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper two conceptualizations of labour in current capitalism are reconstructed and opposed. On the one hand, Habermas and Gorz understand that labor loses centrality in social life while it is crossed by instrumental and productive logics, whereupon they propose to expand other social spheres governed by principles other than those dominant in the productive space. On the other hand, the Italian Autonomism envisions a qualitative change in current production processes, which gradually abandon the instrumental logic to become governed by others more related to communication, cooperation and the search for autonomy. Here a comparison of those two lines will take place, trying to elucidate its theoretical assumptions, and according to the requirements of a critical theory that can study the present detecting both its fissures and its inherent possibilities for social and political transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers insights concerning the historical display and the historiography of landscape as a geographical concept. The paper emphasizes the theoretical and practical robustness of this notion in environmental studies. To this end, the paper presents an homeostatic analysis of the biophysical and socio-cultural components of landscape. Taking this into account, we assess the strength and usefulness of a monist epistemic approach -which looks at the landscape as a totality that can not be fragmented by separating its various and complex components-. This in contrast to the dualistic epistemic view that is substantiated by the nature-culture dichotomy. The last approach became a common discourse within the dominant scientific thought, but it is increasingly problematic for a comprehensive understanding of our emergent (environmental) socio-ecological reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term bioethics has been highly spread in the scientific society since its appearance in the middle of the 20th century. It is being assumed by scientists and intellectuals of different knowledge branches who have worked to clarify its heterogeneous approaches which lead the themes, proposals and concerns of different academic circles. The present paper has as objective to make an analysis of the features of the development of bioethics in Latin America, as well as the problems it is facing today, for which theoretical methods as the analysissynthesis and inductive-deductive were used. In addition, empirical methods such as content analysis, documental bibliographic research were reviewed to get a closed approach to the principal criteria that on this topic are debated today in our context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a rich selection of primary and secondary sources, this paper discusses the fundamental role that exegesis and commentarial literature played in the development and identity of Sanskrit culture throughout more than two millennia. In order to understand the richness and, above all, the continuity of Sanskrit ars interpretandi, the article argues for the necessity of going back to the Vedic period and retrieve a double legacy: on the one hand, the relationship between interpretation and revelation; on the other, between interpretation and liturgy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper tries to articulate, in a plexus of critical sense, the philosophical-political potential found in a series of stances like the Latin American philosophy, cultural control, critical theory and memory, that challenge, defend and support, in one same hermeneutic universe, the validity if the heterogeneous thinking, making the critique to sole thinking and the rescue for the other ontologies a "whistle amidst the cyclone". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper briefly presents the influence of the charisma of St. Francis of Assisi on modern economy. It explains how to translate the Franciscan way of living Christian charity into the characteristic trust of the market economy and its subsequent evolution and ambiguity. In this context, the author also highlights the deep meaning and scope of one of the most difficult and specific concepts of the encyclical «Caritas in veritate» gratuity, related to the logic of gift, which has to be present in economic activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of my paper is to make a balance in the rural school historiography in Mexico, and through it, dialogue with those made in other Latin American countries. Instead of trying to have a joint vision of rural educational development in Latin America through a supposed progress, what really interests is to go beyond national barriers with the purpose of generating a debate about the heterogeneity of different local realities and theoretical-methodological perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I shall address a series of remarks made by Kant in the context of his pedagogical reflections in order to show the fundamental character that the idea (or ideal) of education must assume in every pedagogical project. The kantian conception of a perfectible human nature --and directly related to it, the idea of a progress of the social institutions, which can be reached through the improvement of educational institutions-- represents, for Kant, a fundamental principle of every pedagogical enterprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is drawing an interpretation around the idea of philosophy understood as thought's liberation, just based on the work of José Gaos. We think that this is possible because in our author's work at least two mentions to this sense of emancipation of the philosophy can be found. The first one has to do with the collapse of the spirit of system as the only form and unique way of philosophical thinking. Likewise, the second mention to this emancipation is fulfilled when, through hypostatization of historical consciousness, the author sketches the horizon for the liberation of the individual existence and thinking, under the pretext of an immanentist philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although this paper does not pretend to be a history of the Costa Rican Philosophical Association, it may be helpful in its reconstruction. Its aim is to reflect informally on the activities of the Association in these fifty years and to explore some possibilities for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When using history as a source of moral lessons, Glover assumes that his analysis is ethical in character and morally good. How to justify both assumptions is our aim in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we try to recover, for the political history of Spanish philosophy, the polemic between Manuel Sacristán and Gustavo Bueno, which started at the beginning of 1968. From this historical perspective they propose finally some suggestive reflections on the current importance of the polemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to center our thoughts in the metaphysics and ethics of Hegel's works, pointing out the relationship between the subject, the law and history. This theme arises from an interest in the text on Phenomenology found in the Prologue, number 11.1, entitled "The concept of the absolute as a concept of the subject". Our interpretation and analysis of this theme in the works of Hegel are clearly found in the context of crisis in modern thought and are declared to be the objective of metaphysics. Hegel has been identified as the major exponent of both concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]