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This paper elaborates a philosophical reflection framework in order to access the essence of culture. After pointing out a lack of consensus regarding the definition of culture, it presents a work scheme based on the concepts of both «the endearingness» and «the voice» to contribute to solve this problem. The objective, thus, will be to define culture as an acoustic of the being intended to plunge the subjects into some affectively discernibles limits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The following editorial analyzes some aspects that have been little addressed about the "accepted forms" by scientific journals in the production of texts. The present article, circumscribed to the subjectivity of personal opinion, is not intended to question the discursive morphologies of academic articles, neither the practices nor the uses of publishing researches. On the contrary, based on the consolidation of these "formalities", the need arises not to adhere exclusively to those expressions of discourse with the aim proposed to recreate academic writing from other angles that have not been considered so far. Therefore, it is suggested the possibility of appealing to other rhetorical and discursive forms not so strongly structured in their wording, which can provide novel approaches to the objects of study of the Humanities and Social Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to explore the problem regarding the fetishization of law by examining the hermeneutics of two traditions that, far from being opposed, mutually enrich each other. The former puts forward both philosophical and psychoanalitical traditions, addressing Kantian thought, particularly with respect to law's formalism, illustrated in the categorial imperative and its implications on politics. Therefore, we will stress the relevance of the different critics such formalism received from Adorno, Hegel and Lacan. The latter, linked to a theological-biblical thought, will take into account Franz Hinkelammert's crucial contribution, analyzing Abraham's sacrifice myth, which was interpreted by the tradition, and updated by Pablo de Tarso's Theology, especially stydying a well-known passage from the paulin letter to the Romans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the requirements entailed by one of the desiderata of the Rule of Law theorized by LON L. FULLER. This is the desideratum of clarity. It is argued that clarity contains two distinct requirements: intelligibility and specificity. Both feature in Fuller's treatment of clarity, but they are not adequately distinguished. In particular, the idea of specificity is neither explained nor justified. It is the aim of this article to provide that explanation and justification, as well as to show their consequences. It holds that the consequences are both practical and theoretical. As to practical consequences, clarity as specificity sheds light on a potential deficiency in the creation and administration of rules in a legal system that is different from those entailed by other desiderata : the vagueness, fewness, and lack of differentiation of legal norms. As to theoretical consequences, our analysis helps explain why the law has the specific quality of being a relatively intricate normative body, articulated by a set of more or less specific, multiple and differentiated rules. In this sense, the desideratum of clarity as specificity has a strategic importance in Fuller's set of desiderata. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, thanks to Synthetic Biology (SB), artificial life is a successful research programme. However, the products of SB are only arguably "artificial", while the products of its predecessor, computational Artificial Life (AL), though clearly artificial, are only arguably "living" systems. The article discusses the tension between these two elements and how the different relations between them can explain SB's success at the expense of its predecessor AL. Finally, through an analysis of the possible practical implications of SB's development, it is argued that SB may create a radical transformation of the status of our species in the Biosphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Structuralism and its post-structuralist version distance themselves from history as a real encounter between meaningful practices of social reality and languages. History is reduced to something abstract or the philosophy of history; that is, mere speculation about existence. History considered that way is only structure,method, myth or system; it is not a plexus of inter-subjective relationships emerging through systems of signification that make the intelligibility of society's communicative processes possible. The formalist position of post-structuralism denies the possibility of acceding to the reflective, sensitive, cognitive and rational recordings of the subjects that make them and transcend in their practical actions. The criticism of these positions that consider history more as a part of imagination, poetry, narrative and deconstruction is conclusive because it deals with rescuing the contingent meaning of human historicity from what history provides for us through action becoming interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article defends an eliminativist stance concerning the functions of artificial and natural designs. An illustrative sample of each type of object, both sharing an evident functional unspecificity, is discussed. The conclusion is reached that the only thing that matters when trying to understand how objects interact with their natural or technological environments are the formal properties they possess. The article also contends that such an eliminativist position does not prevent us from answering certain questions which are considered hard to solve in a 'world without functions'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The neoconstitutionalism doctrine draws itself as one of the most controversial and debatable law theories of our times. Renewing the discussion between formalism and antiformalism, the exponents of this school have spent deep investigations in its academic development, in order to reintegrate forgotten moral imperatives to the juridical practice. The following essay represents another reinforcement to the debate, taking into account that its purpose is to demonstrate the accurate lodging between the neoconstitutionalism statements and the Colombian juridical lacks, defending a contentious thesis: the national state, specially in constitutional and judicial terms, condensates many traits that belongs to that neoconstitutionalism spectrum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The arguments put forward in this work are based on certain reflections about doctrinal aspects, theoretical meanings and focuses in some philosophical postures that have been the basis for juridical science. The jus-naturalistic, jus-positivist, formalistic, realistic and materialistic conceptions recognize certain premises which, even when they appear axiomatic, nevertheless, set forth problems that require permanent discussion and interpretation, according to the analysis carried out in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of crucial experiment is critically revised, on the basis of an historic discussion of the interferometric experiments of Michelson and Morley (1881-87), replied and refined by a couple of physicists in the next decades, on the hypothesis of existence of a material medium or ether for light waves propagation, and developed in an attempt for saving the fitting between the Maxwell's formalism of Electrodynamics and Newtonian Mechanics, via the postulation of an absolute inertial frame. The analysis of the historic context of development of physical theories between 1881 and 1930 show evidences about the insufficiency of the epistemic category of crucial experiment, in connection with rigid logicists interpretations, and rational reconstructions of the change of theories in Physics, in the sense of M. Bunge. The discussion is based on two argumentative ways, respectively the characterisation of the ether notion in the preexistent physical theories by the time of the first Michelson's interferometric measurements as an ad hoc theoretical concept -preserved in the (non relativistic) Maxwell's formulation of the Electrodynamics (1873) because of the necessity of fitting to postulations of Newtonian Physics- and the analysis of the virtual irrelevancy of the interferometric experiments of Michelson and Morley (1881- 87) for the construction of Relativity Theory by Albert Einstein, and consequently for the change of theories/ paradigms between classical Mechanics and Special Theory of Relativity (STR). Some implications of our conclusions are briefly discussed, concerning with science teaching situations and reformulation of Physics curriculum contents in STS (Science, Technology and Society) in Polimodal level (15/17 years) in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the role of emotions in the moral of Horkheimer, Adorno and Levinas. Several different answers are given to the question of whether moral action comes solely from reason, from emotion only, or on the contrary, it comes from both emotion and reason. The present work shows a research on Horkheimer, Adorno and Levinas positions, these ones far away from the Kantian formalism. The materialistic ethic of those latter authors is summarized in four thematic core subjects: 1) Morality is resistance to the evil, 2) the moral impulse rises from experiencing victims' suffering, from encountering the other, 3) the moral impulse takes the form of compassion and political compromise to change unfair social structures, and 4) Morality is memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to present the controversy over the notion of possession in Roman law that has divided the most important civil lawyers of our time. This controversy is of special importance because it is the origin of postclassical theories of contemporary private law and the beginning of a systematic discussion on subjective rights. The controversy clearly exemplifies the limitations of formalism and the advantages of legal realism. In this text, the following are examined in order: the provisional real rights theory, the will theory and the interest theory. The reception and influence in Latin American civil law of these theories is also addressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Book Z of the Metaphysics of Aristotle focuses on the idea of the subject, which is one of the senses in which the term "substance" is used. Z is an important book, because it establishes how substance relates to change and matter. One school of interpretation of Z considers one sense of form to be prior to and more important than matter, and has proposed a different reading of the book. I will call this the "formalistic" approach to substance. Supporters of this school hold that the form comprises itself as a whole individual which may be considered as independent of matter. This school focuses especially on Z 3, 1029a-b, where Aristotle seems to challenge the status of matter as an essential part of substance. This paper deals with two formalist approaches, and stresses some difficulties in understanding Z when following the ideas of D. W. Ross. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author tries to recover the practic validity of Aristotelic philosophy, making emphasis in the study of formalism of the exemplar idea and in the inadequate use of analogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]