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Reseña de Biografía de la verdad. ¿Cuándo dejó de importarnos la verdad y por qué deberíamos recuperarla?, de Guillermo Hurtado. Siglo XXI, México, 2024, 142pp.

Rafael Jiménez Cataño — 2025-07-14

Papa Francisco: Vivir y pensar en la unidad de los opuestos (1936 – 2025)

Massimo Borghesi — 2025-07-14

Editorial

The Principle of Presuppositionlessness Revisited: Interests and the Natural Form of the Principle (Part One)

Luis Ignacio Rojas Godina — 2025-07-14

This article offers the first elements towards a systematic understanding of Husserl’s so-called principle of presuppositionlessness. For this purpose, firstly, this programmatic task will be placed in the general context of a phenomenology of phenomenology. Second, it will be shown that, insofar as articulated from and by the world's constituting subjective life, the principle in its strictly phenomenological character is a possibility of multiple, equally possible and layered configurations that give voice to specific forms of life of interests. Third, this paper will analyze the connection between the first configuration of the principle, the natural principle of presuppositionlessness, with cognitive interest and theoretical interest, which will serve as a basis for a future account for the principle in its phenomenological character and for the forms of interest from which it emerges.

Writing as a Metaphor for the Ineffable

Héctor Sevilla Godínez — 2025-07-14

The writer, as an artist of letters, does not use words as a direct vehicle for what he wants to say, but rather as a function of their potential as an analogical enunciation of the unnameable. Art is, therefore, a metaphor for the ineffable, a way of naming, or at least alluding to, that which is not entirely knowable. The text addresses some coincidences between philosophy and literature, establishes that the transpersonal is the trigger for writing, clarifies some common motivations for creating works, associates thought with fiction and everyday life, and establishes some links between art and social reality.

Reading Nietzsche in a Different Way. KGW IX from the Impressions of a Reader (Spanish-Speaking)

Osman Choque — 2025-07-14

It is no open secret that the first Spanish translation of Nietzsche’s work appeared in 1900 under the title Thus Spoke Zarathustra, thanks to the publishing house “La España Moderna”. His Complete Works were translated in 1932 by the publishing house Aguilar, and his Posthumous Fragments were published almost twenty years later. The German-language effort to present Nietzsche’s works, fragments and letters on the scientific basis of a reliable philological edition was initiated later, in the 1960s by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. This project constituted a “safe ground” for different and renowned translations. However, the question is not completely settled, and the faithful presentation of Nietzsche’s texts, especially with regard to the unpublished writings, seems still far from being achieved. This is due to the addition of a new section to the Colli-Montinari project, called KGW IX, which has been gradually published since 2001 with a total of fourteen volumes. This aspect represents a significant challenge for the understanding of Nietzsche in the Spanish-speaking world, since it implies the scope of reading and understanding his thought from the unpublished writings. This paper will focus on two issues: first, to present in detail to the Spanish-speaking reader what the KGW IX project consists of and how it influences the philological interpretation of Nietzsche; and second, to point out, in an introductory way, the challenges this poses for the Spanish-speaking reader, as well as to mention some guidelines to address them.

Reseña Architecture and Objects, de Harman, Graham. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022, 220pp.

Gerard Moreno Ferrer — 2025-07-14

Heart and Self-Consciousness. Or how Feelings Make Part of Human Consciousness

Luis Antonio de Larrauri Escudero — 2025-07-14

Since Brentano it has been pointed out that conscience is intentional, so it is directed towards and object. This seems clear, given the intentionality of intelligence, and that consciousness is intellectual in nature. However, an author like Levinas has highlighted that consciousness shows a non-intentional element, and Wojtyła, in its turn, denies intentionality to consciousness as such, arguing that this trait pertains only to its acts of knowledge. From a Steinian concept of intentionality I study the non-intentional side of consciousness, trying to explain how can it be intellectual and non-intentional, and I suggest some kind of feeling entity might be responsible for this special characteristic.

The natural Character of Morality: Objections to Philippa Foot’s Ethical Naturalism

Lina María Salazar Villa — 2025-03-06

Philippa Foot argues in her most recognized creation, Natural Goodness, that human nature (expressed through the human way of living) and reasoning are the key factors which grant that moral judgement be objective. The purpose of this text is to offer a critical position about this conception from the virtue ethics category that is proposed by the British author.

El anhelo de la paz: dos mensajes, dos perspectivas

Jorge Luis Navarro Campos — 2025-01-27

Editorial

Education and Individuality in Antonio Caso

Roberto Casales García — 2025-01-27

In the present research work, I analyze Antonio Caso's conception of education to accomplish two objectives: firstly, to comprehend in which sense Caso maintains that the ultimate purpose of education is the development of personality and individuality; secondly, to determine the implications that the latter has in his analysis of the issue of education in Mexico (an issue he fundamentally addresses in his Discourses to the Mexican Nation), concerning the characterization of the person and human existence that appears in two of his most relevant works, namely, "Existence as Economy and Charity. Essay about the essence of Christianity" and "The Human Person and the Totalitarian State”.

Spontaneous Order: A Unifying Point Between Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations

Mathias Nicolas Ribeiro — 2025-01-27

The aim of this work will be to understand the scope of the concept of spontaneous order, as the basis of the origin of morality and the market in Adam Smith's thought. Our thesis is summarized in stating that the idea of spontaneous order seems to establish a possible union between the two works, offering itself as the foundation of the origin of morality and the market. We will divide this work into four parts: the first two focus on making an outline of the two profiles that Smith managed to define in his works, the economic man and the moral man. In the third, we argue that in the Scottish author both moral and economic activity are explained in terms of their origin and development, through the idea of spontaneous order, although he did not use that word precisely to refer to it. We will end in the fourth part with brief conclusions.

Telematic Presence and Personal Human Presence. An Approach from Thomas Aquinas and Merleau-Ponty

Patricia Moya — 2025-01-27

Informatic technological developments, catalyzed by the recent pandemic, have promoted telematic human interactions. In everyday language, this type of exchange is often contrasted with a presence that is described as “physical” or “corporal”. It is worth asking, however, what is unique and distinctive about this presence when it is referred to personal entities, that is, to personal bodies or, if you prefer, to embodied people. In this article we examine this question from an ontological Thomistic perspective, but in dialogue with the rich speculations that Maurice Merleau-Ponty has left us on human presence and perception.

Creativity as a rational Innovation and a critical Dialogue in the Horizon of Meaning

Iver A. Beltrán García — 2025-01-27

Creativity, as a phenomenon, is studied seeking to distinguish it from irrational, uncritical, hermeneutically poor, and monological forms of activity. The methods used are conceptual analysis and theoretical construction. As the main result, creativity is defined as innovation supported by the activity of memory and imagination, as far as it assumes a problematizing rationality and unfolds on the horizon of meaning in the form of a dialogue. This way of conceiving creativity provides references to evaluate its depth (critical rationality) and its scope (richness of meaning and dialogical potentiality).

Efficiency and the common good: a necessary bond

Fernando Arancibia-Collao — 2025-01-27

The central issue of the article is the interrelation between the common good and economic efficiency. We want to argue that 1) an interrelation between the idea of common good and the conception of economic efficiency is possible, and 2) that this interrelation is fruitful and constructive for the use of an ethically informed concept of economic efficiency that can be useful in public policy analysis. To this goal, 1) we will analyze various concepts of the common good in the literature; 2) we will carry out an exercise of theoretical interrelation between economic efficiency and the common good.

Utilitarianism and Perfectionism: An Approach to Nozick’s Experience Machine

Luis Francisco Estrada Pérez — 2025-01-27

Nozick’s (2017) experience machine thought experiment has been considered a critique of utilitarianism (Railton, 1984). However, it is not entirely clear the aforementioned puzzle constitutes a direct objection to utilitarianism. The present research will focus on analyzing some interpretations of the criticism of utilitarianism that is presented in said thought experiment. Firstly, the passage in question and its link with the family of utilitarian theories will be exposed. Later, it will be stated that the type of utilitarianism that Nozick attacks is preferentialism in a restrictive version. Finally, it will be asserted that the experience machine argument, although it does not qualify as a direct criticism of classical utilitarianism, places Nozick in a position close to ethical perfectionism.

Reseña de La vulnerabilidad como origen de la obligación política. Una revisión desde el pensamiento de Alasdair MacIntyre, de Pablo Galindo. EUNSA, Pamplona, 2024, 264 pp.

Rafael Hurtado Domínguez — 2024-09-30

Generating the Event: Time and Space between Kant and Jean Luc Marion

Francisco Novoa-Rojas — 2024-09-30

This study explores the intersections and divergences between the conceptions of time and space by Immanuel Kant and Jean-Luc Marion. It analyzes how Kant defines these notions as pure a priori intuitions in the Critique of Pure Reason and how Marion reconsiders them in his proposal of the phenomenology of donation. The study highlights how Marion transforms the Kantian perspective, emphasizing the passivity of the “adonado” in the reception of phenomena and proposing an interactive dynamic between subject and phenomenon. The study suggests a synthesis of both approaches to understand time and space as co-constituted in a dialogue between call and response, expanding the generative capacity of subjects within a community.

La fenomenología y el diálogo entre fe y razón. Entrevista a Mariano Crespo

Roberto Casales García — 2024-09-30

The Gaze into the Abyss. Rereadings of the Myth of Orpheus in the Work of Maurice Blanchot

Joan Cabó Rodríguez — 2024-09-30

The mythical and literary image of Orpheus offers us a privileged perspective on the work of Maurice Blanchot and the philosophical implications of his Literary criticism. The objective of this study is both to interpret the rereadings that Blanchot makes of this motif throughout his work from the global sense of his work, as well as to test an interpretation of the myth in a phenomenological key, putting Blanchot’s approach to the literary space in dialogue with some considerations on limit regions of phenomenality, as they have been proposed, specifically, by Jean-Luc Marion.

The Question for the Who of Testimony. Reflections from the Philosophy of History on a Disputed Category

Rodrigo Núñez Poblete — 2024-09-30

Mainly from a philosophical perspective, this article examines the testimony of human rights violations, seeking to problematize the concept of the “who” in the testimony. On the one hand, it proposes to recognize the presence of a “who” on the testimonial accounts, with the aim of problematizing the homogenized idea of the “witness”. On the other hand, the relational condition of testimony, as an act that requires (and seeks) a context of listening, is identified and discussed. All the above is proposed from the historical-philosophical discussion about the “singularity” of the civil-military dictatorship in Chile, taking as a frame of reference the so-called Historikerstreit in Germany.